{"product_id":"james-joyce-9780415491822","title":"James Joyce","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce (18821941) 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe significance of Joyce's 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 always favourable) from virtually every significant writer of the age: elder statesmen like Yeats recognized his importance, as did members of h\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733845008727,"sku":"9780415491822","price":926.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415491822.jpg?v=1782119836","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/james-joyce-9780415491822","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}