James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual Cultures

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual CulturesAuthor(s): Niels Caul\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350528550, 978-1350528550\nSynopsis\nPutting Joyce back into dialogue with other Irish writers of his generation, this book shows that his experiments with narrative styles and structures were a renegotiation rather than a rejection of earlier Irish conventions.\n\n While Joyce is undoubtedly the best known, other Irish writers were also influenced by European movements in naturalism and decadence that were shaping European Modernism as it emerged in the 1890s. Reading Joyce's works in the context of often forgotten contemporaries such as George Moore, George Egerton, Hannah Lynch, Shan Bullock, Forrest Reid and Charlotte OConor Eccles enhances our understanding of their works as well as Joyces, both thematically and stylistically, and shines a much-needed light on previously critically underex.