Joycean Legacies [Hardcover]

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.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 ? 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

The essays in this collection draw upon letters, unpublished papers and personal accounts to offer valuable insights into each authors personal encounter with Joyce.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 Joycealc#