Joycean legacies /

"The primary focus of the twelve essays in this collection is on the craft of James Joyce and the profound challenge it has posed for subsequent writers from the 1940s to the present day. First, each writer's positioning of him or herself in relation to the professed Joycean legacy is disc...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Carpentier, Martha Celeste (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
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  • Preface; Derek Attridge
  • 1. Introduction; Martha C. Carpentier
  • 2. Elizabeth Foley O'Connor; 'Kate O'Brien, James Joyce, and the 'Lonely Genius''
  • 3. Thomas O'Grady; 'Thanks Be To Joyce: Brendan Behan à Paris'
  • 4. Steven Morrison; 'Houses of Decay: Joyce, History, and J.G. Farrell's Troubles'
  • 5. Ellen McWilliams; 'Adaptations of Joyce in the Fiction of Patrick McCabe'
  • 6. Ruth Hoberman; 'Joyce's Nightmare of History in George Orwell's The Clergyman's Daughter'
  • 7. Margaret Hiley; ''Bizarre or dream like': J.R.R. Tolkien on Finnegans Wake'
  • 8. Jim Clarke; 'The Baroque Weaving Machine: Contrasting Counterpoint in James Joyce and Anthony Burgess'
  • 9. David Vichnar; 'Wars Waged With/Against Joyce: James Joyce and Post-1984 British Fiction'
  • 10. Martha C. Carpentier; 'Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and the Joycean Bildungsroman'
  • 11. Nathan Oates; ''A Stone in Place of the Heart': The Influence of James Joyce on the Late Style of Raymond Carver'
  • 12. Maria McGarrity; 'Imagining the 'wettest indies': The Transatlantic Network of James Joyce and Derek Walcott'
  • 13. Leila Baradaran Jamili and Bahman Zarrinjooee; 'An Artistic Metempsychosis: James Joyce's and Sadeq Hedayat's Nonlinear and Chaotic Imagination'
  • Index.