James Joyce, interested in drama from his youth, encountered early Italian cinema in Trieste and subsequently worked to establish the first movie-house in Dublin in 1909. He eventually discussed his cinematographic writing techniques with the great Russian filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein. But although Joyce considered the possibilities of filming his ...
This study addresses the role of the literary arts in regard to war in the 20th century. Norris discusses how crucial works expressed their ethical concerns, and what influence such work exerted in its own time, and in retrospect. Among the works discussed are Ernest Hemingway's A FAREWELL TO ARMS, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Erich Maria ...
This compact, inexpensive companion to Joyce's masterpiece gives students an avenue into the novel as it introduces them to five important contemporary critical approaches.
This companion volume to James Joyce's "Ulysses" offers students an avenue into the novel and at the same time introduces them to five important contemporary critical approaches: deconstruction by Jacques Derrida; reader response criticism by Wolfgang User; feminist and gender criticism by Vicki Mahaffey; psychoanalytic criticism by Kimberly J. ...
." . . some of the finest, most politically sensitive and informed feminist criticism yet published on Joyce. . . . it will have a major impact on the field of Joyce studies . . ." --Vicki Mahaffey, associate professor of English, University of Pennsylvania In this revolutionary work, Margot Norris proposes that Joyce's art critiques modernism's ...
The study of culture -- both Joyce's and our own -- provides the impetus for this volume of essays. This volume presents a culture criticism that is both analysis and judgment of politics, art, fashion, and constructions of the body inscribed and transcribed in the Joycean text.
Because the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners seem to function as models of fiction, they are able to stand in for fiction in general in their ability to make the operation of texts explicit and visible. Joyce's stories do this by provoking skepticism in the face of their storytelling. Their narrative unreliabilities--produced by strange gaps, ...
Contributors explore exciting new areas in feminist and gender studies on subjects as disparate as Joyce's use of fraternal incest, the cultural code of "femme fatale", androgyny and the abject mother, and Mariolatry. This collection should be of interest not only to Joyceans but to those with an interest in gender and cultural studies.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: 1976
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Soft cover. Minor edge wear and wear on spine, otherwise very good. No underlining or notes. Item ID: M1027. read more
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