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Books : Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing (Oxford World's Classics)


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by: James Joyce

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 824.912
EAN: 9780192833532
ISBN: 0192833537
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: March 21, 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 876169
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA



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A unique anthology of Joyce's non-fictional writings, this volume addresses diverse issues such as aesthetics, the functions of the press, censorship, Irish cultural history, English literature and Empire. The collection includes newspaper articles, reviews, lectures and essays, and covers 40 years of Joyce's life. These pieces also clarify and illuminate the transformations in Joyce's fiction, from Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to the first drafts of Ulysses. Gathering together more than fifty essays, several of which have never been available in an English edition, this is the most complete and the most helpfully annotated collection.



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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Readable Joyce Writings
Kevin Barry compiles a collection of James Joyce's critical writings in Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing. This collection includes articles, manuscripts, and lectures that had been previously published in Irish and Italian journals. Most of the writings parallel what he wrote about in Dubliners, Ulysses, and his creative poetry. Barry suggests that the journalistic criticism that James Joyce wrote about Ireland were to be published in one single volume, which was supposed to be geard ... Read More




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