Reading Joyce - Couverture souple

Pierce, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405840617 ISBN 13 : 9781405840613

Editeur : Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

‘Is there one who understands me?’

So wrote James Joyce towards the end of his final work, Finnegans Wake. The question continues to be asked about the author who claimed that he had put so many enigmas into Ulysses that it would ‘keep the professors busy for centuries’ arguing over what he meant.

Studied by thousands of students and with a huge popular following, Joyce is arguably the greatest writer of the twentieth century, but, for many, his books remain an impenetrable mystery. With the help of an engaging commentary, a guide to Joyce’s writing, and a bank of material gleaned from thirty years teaching Joyce in the classroom, David Pierce has produced a book that makes sense of Joyce’s work for today’s reader. He succeeds in presenting Joyce as an author both more straightforward and infinitely more complex than we had perhaps imagined.  

 

 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Pierce

has taught, read, and written about modern literature and Irish writing for more than thirty years. He is on the Board of the International James Joyce Foundation and the author of James Joyce's Ireland; Yeats's Worlds: Ireland, England and the Poetic Imagination; Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader; Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing; and Joyce and Company (Continuum). David lives in York.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

“Of the making of books about James Joyce there is no end, but Reading Joyceby David Pierce is something special.  It is the distillation of a lifetime’s immersion as a teacher and critic in the work of a great but dauntingly difficult modern writer.  I can think of no better companion for anyone embarking on a serious exploration of Joyce’s work, but seasoned Joyceans will also find much to delight and inform them here.  It is a literary as well as a critical achievement, a unique blend of commentary and confession,  biography and autobiography, illustrated throughout by a profusion of fascinating photographs, drawings, maps and other images which evoke the world of James Joyce and the ways in which his books have been received.”

 

David Lodge

 

“Many critics of James Joyce are smart: David Pierce is also wise. Reading Joycebrilliantly and judiciously uses his experiences as a fine teacher, a major scholar - and an open, receptive reader. And few critics are so skillfully alert to the actual, material, visible world in which Joyce’s works take place.”

 

Morris Beja, author of James Joyce: A Literary Life, and former President, the International James Joyce Foundation

 

“This is a brave, richly informed, and candid book, an engaging mix of biography, autobiography, and critical analysis. A godsend to teachers and students alike, it  brilliantly demystifies Joyce, without compromising his complexity. It is a uniquely personal odyssey of discovery which all Joyceans will recognise as their own, too.”

 

Professor Terry Dolan, University College Dublin

 

“Reading Joyceis an ideal introduction to the works of the Master. Unlike many writers on Joyce, Pierce chooses to address the reader on terms of equality rather than to revel self-regardingly in difficulties or to confuse them with a theoretical overlay which Joyce himself would have laughed at. This book presents Joyce mediated by an urbane and witty expert, who expects the same qualities in his readers. Pierce does not flagellate himself - as too many Joyceans do - over trifles or theories and does not expect his readers to do so either.”

 

 Mr. Justice Adrian Hardiman, M.R.I.A., Supreme Court of Ireland

 

 

 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1405840617
• ISBN 13: 9781405840613
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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