Joycean Legacies

by Martha C. Carpentier

Overview

These twelve essays analyze the complex pleasures and problems of engaging with James Joyce for subsequent writers, discussing Joyce's textual, stylistic, formal, generic, and biographical influence on an intriguing selection of Irish, British, American, and postcolonial writers from the 1940s to the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349505753
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	265
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Derek Attridge, University of York, UK Jim Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ruth Hoberman, Eastern Illinois University, USA Margaret Hiley, Independent Scholar, UK Maria McGarrity, Long Island University, New York, USA Ellen McWilliams, University of Exeter, UK Steven Morrison, Independent Scholar, UK Nathan Oates, Seton Hall University, USA Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, Washington College in Chestertown, USA Thomas O'Grady, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA David Vichnar, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Leila Baradaran Jamili, Islamic Azad University, Iran Bahman Zarrinjooee, Islamic Azad University, Iran

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

The essays in this collection draw upon letters, unpublished papers and personal accounts to offer valuable insights into each author’s personal encounter with Joyce. … Undoubtedly a splendid opening, this collection might best be followed by more specialised studies of Joycean influence in certain spheres: twentieth century American and Latin American novelists, for example. An undergraduate or casual reader may also find that the well-edited Joycean Legacies renders the seemingly ‘impossible question’ of Joyce’s impact and influence far more approachable.” (Tobias Harris, James Joyce Broadsheet, Issue 104, June, 2016)

“The volume as a whole succeeds in sketching a panorama of Joycean influences which casts a light on the complexities of inheritance and tradition – especially when that tradition is predicated upon innovation and ‘the new’. … Joycean Legacy is faithful to this intent … and is definitely worth reading for all those who wish to encompass the ramifications of Joyce’s hypertextual resonances – whether deliberate or accidental – and the problems set by his institutionalization.” (Philippe Birgy, Miranda, miranda.revues.org, 2016)

“For anyone working in the field of Joyce and subsequent literature it goes without saying this book is a necessity. It has started a legacy all of its own, and long may it be added legs by more and more such work being condensed into collective or single-author studies on this very subject. A timely tome on Joyce’s enduring timelessness.” (Daniel Bristow, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 24 (2), 2016)

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