Milton (series: critical assessments of major writers, vol 1) Critical Assessments of Major Writers Series

SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE!(Valid until 3 months after publication) James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882---1941) 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. The significance of Joyce--s oeuvre--particularly the later and more radical prose works--far 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 his own generation, such as Pound, Eliot, and Lawrence. The major American critics of the era, like Edmund Wilson and Lionel Trilling, and, in France, Eugene Jolas and Jacques Mercanton, also responded with enthusiasm to his work, as did Cyril Connolly and F. R. Leavis in Britain. Joyce--s work has also lent itself to approaches informed by contemporary theory--whether new critical, formalist, structuralist, deconstructionist, feminist, or materialist--such that the development of Joycean criticism maps the spread and transmutations of --theory-- and illustrates its applications. So, while the prospective reader of Ulysses or Finnegans Wake is likely to feel a compelling need for some preparation before consuming the text itself, the daunting quantity (and variable quality) of Joyce criticism makes it difficult to discriminate the useful from the tendentious, superficial, and otiose. That is why this new Routledge title is so urgently needed. In four volumes, the collection meets the need for an authoritative reference work to allow researchers and students to make sense of the vast Joycean literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Users will now be able easily and rapidly to locate the best and most influential critical scholarship, work that is otherwise often inaccessible or scattered throughout a variety of specialist journals and books. With material gathered into one easy-to-use set, researchers and students can now spend more of their time with the key journal articles, book chapters, and other pieces, rather than on time-consuming (and sometimes fruitless) archival searches. Fully indexed and with a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, James Joyce is an essential reference work and is destined to be valued as a vital research resource.

PROVISIONAL CONTENTS Volume I Part 1: Encounters and Impressions 1. Stanislaus Joyce, --The Soil--, My Brother--s Keeper (Faber, 1958), p. 27. 2. C. P. Curran, James Joyce Remembered (OUP, 1968), pp. 25---7, 28---31, 33---4, 35---6. 3. Oliver St John Gogarty, Mourning Became Mrs Spendlove (Creative Age Press, 1948), pp. 41---2, 43---4, 46, 48---9, 50---1. 4. Mary and Padraic Colum, Our Friend James Joyce (Doubleday, 1958), pp. 10, 11, 18---21, 35---7. 5. The Dublin Diary of Stanislaus Joyce, ed. George H. Healey (Faber, 1962), pp. 13---15, 29---30, 46---52, 103. 6. Alessandro Bruni, --Recollections of Joyce--, James Joyce Quarterly, 1977, XIV, 2, 160---63. 7. Frank Budgen, James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses (OUP, 1972), pp. 9---15. 8. Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company (Faber, 1960), pp. 45---52. 9. Arthur Power Clive Hart (ed.), Conversations with James Joyce (Barnes and Noble, 1974), pp. 27, 28---9, 48---50. 10. Frank Budgen, --Further Recollections of James Joyce--, Partisan Review, 1956, XXIII, 349---54, 363---6. Part 2: Obituaries and Initial Assessments of His Significance 11. Neil Tomkinson, --James Joyce--, Adelphi, 1941, XVII, 175---7. 12. Eugene Jolas, --My Friend James Joyce--, Partisan Review, 1941, VIII, 2, 82---93. 13. Ezra Pound, --James Joyce: To His Memory--, in Olga Rudge (ed.), If This Be Treason (Tisp Nuova, 1948), pp. 269---71. 14. A. L. Rowse, --James Joyce--, World Review, Mar. 1941, 39---42. 15. Desmond MacCarthy, --James Joyce--, Memories (MacGibbon and Kee, 1953), pp. 113---17. 16. A. J. Leventhal, --James Joyce--, Dublin Magazine, 1941, XVI, 12---21. 17. B. J. Brooks, --"Shem the Penman": An Appreciation of James Joyce--, Nineteenth Century and After, Jan.---June 1941, CXXIX. 18. T. S. Eliot, --The Approach to James Joyce--, The Listener, 14 Oct. 1943, pp. 446---7. 19. Stanislaus Joyce, --James Joyce: A Memoir--, Hudson Review, 1949, 2, 485, 486---90, 491---3, 495, 496---8. 20. Stuart Gilbert, --The Latin Background of James Joyce--s Art--, Horizon, 1944, X, 57, 178---89. 21. Herbert Read, --James Joyce--, A Coat of Many Colours (Routledge, 1945), pp. 145---9. 22. Harry Levin, --James Joyce--, Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1946, 125---9. 23. John Lehmann, --Portrait of the Artist as an Escaper--, Penguin New Writing 33 (1948), pp. 138---43. Part 3: Joyce and Ireland 24. Benedict Kiely, --Rebels--, --Townsmen--, --Dreams--, --Lovers and Creeds--, Modern Irish Fiction (Golden Eagle Books, 1950), pp. 44---7. 25. Frank O--Connor, --Antithesis---I--, A Short History of Irish Literature (Capricorn Books, 1967), pp. 198---202. 26. Thomas Kinsella, --Irish Literature---Continuity of the Tradition--, Poetry Ireland, 1968, VII, 8, 109---16. 27. Raymond Porter, --The Cracked Lookingglass--, in McGrory and Unterecker (eds.), Yeats, Joyce and Beckett (Associated University Press, 1976), pp. 87---91. 28. Brian Moore, --Old Father, Old Artificer--, Irish Universities Review (Joyce Centenary Number), 1982, XII, 1, 13---16. 29. John Montague, --James Joyce: Work Your Progress--, Irish Universities Review, 1982, XII, 1, 98---103. 30. Seamus Deane, --Joyce and Nationalism--, Celtic Revivals (Faber, 1985), pp. 92---107. 31. Declan Kiberd, --James Joyce and Mythic Realism--, Inventing Ireland (Cape, 1995), pp. 327---55, 677---9. 32. Vincent J. Cheng, --Nation Without Borders: Joyce, Cosmopolitanism and the Inauthentic Irishman--, in Andrew Gibson and Ian Platt (eds.), Joyce, Ireland, Britain (University Press of Florida, 2006), pp. 212---29. Part 4: Joyce and the Forms of Fiction 33. Irene Hendry, --Joyce--s Epiphanies--, in Seon Givens (ed.), James Joyce: Two Decades of Criticism (Vanguard Press, 1948), pp. 27---3