James Joyce A Short Introduction Blackwell Introductions to Literature 1st Edition by Michael Seidel ISBN 0631227016 9780631227014

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ISBN 10: 0631227016 
ISBN 13: 9780631227014
Author: Michael Seidel

James Joyce A Short Introduction Blackwell Introductions to Literature 1st Table of contents:

• Chapter 1: Formative Years and Early Dublin

  • Joyce’s Dublin Background and Family Life

  • Education and Early Literary Aspirations

  • The Epiphanies and Early Poetic Endeavors

  • Departure from Ireland and Self-Exile

• Chapter 2: Dubliners – Portraits of Paralysis

  • Context and Publication History

  • Themes of Paralysis, Escape, and Epiphany

  • Analysis of Key Stories (e.g., “Araby,” “Eveline,” “The Dead”)

  • Joyce’s Realism and Critique of Irish Society

• Chapter 3: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – An Artist’s Awakening

  • Autobiographical Elements and Bildungsroman Form

  • Stephen Dedalus’s Intellectual and Artistic Development

  • Religion, Nationalism, and the Artist’s Rejection of Constraints

  • Narrative Technique and Style

• Chapter 4: Ulysses – The Odyssey of Modern Life

  • Conception and Structure (Homer, Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus)

  • Modernist Techniques (Stream of Consciousness, Mythic Method)

  • Key Episodes and Their Significance

  • Themes: Everyday Life, Exile, Identity, Marriage, Language

  • Controversy and Reception

• Chapter 5: Finnegans Wake – The Language of Dreams

  • The “Nightbook” and its Experimental Nature

  • Language, Pun, and Multilingualism

  • Themes of History, Cycle, Dream, and Family

  • Challenges and Rewards of Reading the Wake

• Chapter 6: Joyce’s Poetics and Aesthetics

  • Joyce’s Theories of Art and the Artist

  • Impersonal Art and the “Villain of the Play”

  • The Role of Language and Experimentation

  • Music, Symbolism, and the Everyday

• Chapter 7: Critical Responses and Legacy

  • Early Reception and Controversy

  • Major Critical Approaches (Modernist, Feminist, Postcolonial, Psychoanalytic)

  • Joyce’s Influence on Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature

  • Joyce in Popular Culture and Adaptation

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