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How to Read Joyce
Derek Attridge
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| Seminar Introduction |
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Few writers have acquired a reputation for obscurity to equal that of James Joyce. The short stories of Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical narrative of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are as close to the man as many readers will dare to venture. But to stop at these earlier works is to deprive oneself of some of the most clever and funniest writing in the English language. From the revolutionary technique of Ulysses, to what Joyce considered to be his best work, Finnegans Wake, a whole world of language and imagination awaits the uninitiated. In this seminar, drawing on his contribution to The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce, Derek Attridge of the University of York, England, and Rutgers University in the US, offers a pathway to Joyce that attempts to bypass the intimidation.
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- Examine some of the connections between Joyce's easier and more difficult works.
- Contextualize Joyce's writings among its many commentaries.
- Look at some of Joyce's own techniques for constructing his work.
- Discover the best way to read Ulysses.
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Portrait of Joyce used with the permission of the National Portrait Gallery, London (www.npg.org.uk). This is extracted from pages 23-28 of The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce, edited by Derek Attridge, published by Cambridge University Press. Copyright Cambridge University Press, 1990. These eleven essays, by an international team of leading Joyce scholars and teachers, explore the most important aspects of Joyce's life and art. The topics covered include his debt to Irish and European writers and traditions, his life in Paris, and the relation of his work to the "modern" spirit of skeptical relativism. This Companion, designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce
Attridge, Derek (Editor)
Paperback (1990)
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