(series copy) These encyclopedic companions are browsable, invaluable individual guides to authors and their works. Useful for students, but written with the general reader in mind, they are clear, concise, accessible, and supply the basic cultural, historical, biographical and critical information so crucial to an appreciation and enjoyment of the primary works. Each is arranged in an A-Z fashion and presents and explains the terms, people, places, and concepts encountered in the literary worlds of James Joyce, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf. As a keen explorer of the mundane material of everyday life, James Joyce ranks high in the canon of modernist writers. He is arguably the most influential writer of the twentieth-century, and may be the most read, studied, and taught of all modern writers. The James Joyce A-Z is the ideal companion to Joyce's life and work. Over 800 concise entries relating to all aspects of Joyce are gathered here in one easy-to-use volume of impressive scope.

James Joyce A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Writings (Literary A-Z's)

Gillespie, Michael Patrick

Fargnoli, A. Nicholas

Reference

Oxford University Press

A guide to the life and works of James Joyce including complete plot summaries and character analyses, a full family tree, extensive bibliography, the locations of significant landmarks in his writing and details of Joycean societies and newsletters.

James Joyce A-Z

Literature & Fiction

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Features synopses of works, character descriptions, biographies of contemporaries, and explanations of literary terms and place names

James Joyce A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work

FACTS ON FILE+

Alphabetically-arranged entries provide information about Faulkner's life and work, covering his novels, short fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, speeches, screenplays, letters, and his family, friends, and associates.

William Faulkner A to Z

Golay, Michael

Alphabetically-arranged entries provide information about Faulkner's life and work, covering his novels, short fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, speeches, screenplays, letters, and his family, friends, and associates.

William Faulkner A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work (Literary A to Z Series)

Checkmark Books

This is an examination of Irish novelist, James Joyce, exploring his work and influences, including family, friends, relatives, and acquaintances, as well as important places where he lived and worked. This book includes: a biography of Joyce; accounts of censorship and legal battles; and characters in his fiction.

Critical Companion to James Joyce: A Literary Companion to His Life And Works

British & Irish

An encyclopedic guide to the American author includes critical entries on his works and characters, biographical information, and influential people and places in his life.

Critical Companion to William Faulkner

Hamblin, Robert W.

Critical Companion to James Joyce (Critical Companion (Hardcover))

Maguire, Daniel C., Fargnoli, A. Nicholas

On Moral Grounds: The Art/Science of Ethics

Politics & Social Sciences

Maguire, Daniel C.

Philosophy

Crossroad Pub. Co

Reading James Joyce (Reading Literature Today)

Reading 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 Finnegan's 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 works--critical writings, drama, poetry, letters, epiphanies, and personal recollections--to contextualize the creative and social environments from which his most notable publications arose. This uniquely comprehensive guide to Joyce will be an invaluable and comprehensive resource for readers exploring the influential world of Joyce studies.

Routledge

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