Product Description: Margot Norris' The Value of James Joyce explores the writings of James Joyce from his early poetry and short stories to his final avant-garde work, Finnegans Wake. His works include some of the most difficult and challenging texts in the English literary canon without diminishing his impressive popularity beyond the scope of academia...read more

Product Description: Veteran Joyce scholar Margot Norris offers an innovative study of the processes of reading Ulysses as narrative and focuses on the unexplored implications, subplots, subtexts, hidden narratives, and narratology in one of the twentieth-century's most influential novels.

Product Description: James Joyce has long been viewed as a literary modernist who helped define and uphold modernism's fundamental concepts of the artist as martyr to bourgeois sensibilities and of an idealistic faith in artistic freedom. In this revolutionary work, however, Margot Norris proposes that Joyce's art actually critiques these modernist tenets by revealing an awareness of the artist's connections to and constraints within bourgeois society...read more

Product Description: Because the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners seem to function as models of fiction, they are able to stand in for fiction in general in their ability to make the operation of texts explicit and visible. Joyce's stories do this by provoking skepticism in the face of their storytelling...read more

Product Description: The twentieth century will be remembered for great innovation in two particular areas: art and culture, and technological advancement. Much of its prodigious technical inventiveness, however, was pressed into service in the conduct of warfare...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The twentieth century will be remembered for great innovation in two particular areas: art and culture, and technological advancement. Much of its prodigious technical inventiveness, however, was pressed into service in the conduct of warfare...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A companion to Ulysses which provides a biographical and historical background to the original work and accounts of five important contemporary critical approaches to the text. The different editions of Ulysses are considered, and the companion is part of the CASE STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM series.

Product Description: The study of culture -- both Joyce's and our own -- provides the impetus for this volume of essays. This volume presents a culture criticism that is both analysis and judgment of politics, art, fashion, and constructions of the body inscribed and transcribed in the Joycean text. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This compact companion volume provides an avenue into Joyce's masterpiece and at the same time introduces five important contemporary critical approaches. It includes all of the useful apparatus of the Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series, but does not reprint the text of Ulysses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This compact, inexpensive companion to Joyce's masterpiece gives students an avenue into the novel as it introduces them to five important contemporary critical approaches. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Margot Norris stalks her subject with intelligent vocabulary, critical sophistication and bristling analysis. She creates a new tradition to challenge previous ones, revealing unexpected affinities between Darwin and the modernists she treats...read more

Product Description: This is a structuralist analysis of Finnigan's Wake. A complex coherent and convincing theory of what Joyce intended the wake to be and to do. The attempt to assess the teleology of Finnigan's Wake has always presented critics with a dilemma the choice between radical and conservative interpretation of the book...read more