Joyce

A Guide for the Perplexed

By: Peter Mahon

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Hardcover | 2 September 2009 | Edition Number 1

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216 Pages

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21.6 x 13.8 x 1.27

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"In clear and simple prose, Mahon explains how to connect this little black box to the Joycean engine. Just pull some gears, it falls into place and works." -Jean-Michel Rabat , Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania
James Joyce's work has been regarded as some of the most obscure, challenging, and difficult writing ever committed to paper; it is also shamelessly funny and endlessly entertaining. Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed celebrates the daring, humor and playfulness of Joyce's complex work while engaging with and elucidating the most demanding aspects of his writing. The book explores in detail the motifs and radical innovations of style and technique that characterize his major works-Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. By highlighting how Joyce's texts have been read by recent innovations in literary and cultural theory, Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed offers the reader a Joyce that is contemporary, fresh, and relevant.

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"As anyone who's read Finnegan's Wake can attest, James Joyce can be a challenging writer. In this book, Mahon guides readers through Joyce's stylistic and thematic complexity, showing readers how he remains contemporary, fresh, and relevant. Without losing sight of Joyce's humor and playfulness, the author explores the motifs and radical innovations of style and technique that characterize his major works Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake and highlights the ways that Joyce's texts have been read by recent innovations in literary and cultural theory." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.

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