Description
Book SynopsisReading James Joyce is a ready-at-hand compendium and all-encompassing interpretive guide designed for teachers and students approaching Joyce's writings for the first time, guiding readers to better understand Joyce's works and the background from which they emerged. Meticulously organized, this text situates readers within the world of Joyce including biographical exploration, discussion of Joyce's innovations and prominent works such as
Dubliners,
Ulysses, and
Finnegans Wake, surveys of significant critical approaches to Joyce's writings, and examples of alternative readings and contemporary responses. Each chapter will provide interpretive approaches to contemporary literary theories and key issues, including end-of-chapter strategies and extended readings for further engagement. This book also includes shorter assessments of Joyce's lesser-known workscritical writings, drama, poetry, letters, epiphanies, and personal recollectionsto contextualiz
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 Biography
2 Approaching Dubliners
3 Approaching A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4 Approaching Ulysses
5 Approaching Finnegans Wake
6 Approaching the Minor Works
Appendices—Debunking popular myths about Joyce’s writings
I. The Uncle Charles Principle
II. The love life of Bloom and Molly
III. The Dream of Finnegans Wake
IV. Definitions of Modernism and Postmodernism
V. Epiphanies, Epicleti, and Epiclets
VI. Satiric and Serious Joyce: "The Holy Office," "Gas from a Burner," and "A Curious History"
VII. Currency Terms with Selected Examples from Joyce’s Literary Works
Chronology
Bibliography
Miscellaneous: Joyce Foundations and Journals
