James Joyce by Colin Milton - 9780415491822

Taylor & Francis Ltd

James JoyceAuthor(s): Colin Milton\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415491822, 978-0415491822\nSynopsis\nJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce [tel] is a towering figure in the development of English-language modernist prose fiction. And his influence extends well beyond the anglophone literary world; like his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, Joyce flew by the nets of nationality, language, and religion, and spent most of his life in continental Europe.\n\nThe significance of Joyces oeuvreparticularly the later and more radical prose worksfar outweighs the modesty of its bulk: only two books of verse, a play, one collection of short stories, and three novels (using that term in its most elastic sense) were published in his lifetime. But the combination of a modest output with an increasingly audacious experimentalism has generated interpretative and critical commentary on a vast and bewildering scale. Joyce attracted serious attention (not al.