James Joyce a to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work - Hardcover

Fargnoli, A.Nicholas; Gillespie, Michael Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816029040 ISBN 13: 9780816029044

Publisher: Facts On File Inc, 1995

Synopsis

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

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Review

"This unique volume...gathers an impressive amount of information about Joyce in one tidy package. This is a delightful and helpful volume...A worthy candidate for serious literature collections."-- Library Journal
"Browsers will find previously unknown material, as well as new light on what they have already grasped."--Times Literary Supplement
"Unexpected and thought-provoking essays such as the one on Henri Matisse or the compelling explication on "Oxen of the Sun" contribute to this must-have encyclopedia for Joyce lovers on the run." --Literature in Transition
"This unique volume...gathers an impressive amount of information about Joyce in one tidy package. This is a delightful and helpful volume...A worthy candidate for serious literature collections."-- Library Journal
"Browsers will find previously unknown material, as well as new light on what they have already grasped."--Times Literary Supplement
"Unexpected and thought-provoking essays such as the one on Henri Matisse or the compelling explication on "Oxen of the Sun" contribute to this must-have encyclopedia for Joyce lovers on the run." --Literature in Transition
"This unique volume...gathers an impressive amount of information about Joyce in one tidy package. This is a delightful and helpful volume...A worthy candidate for serious literature collections."-- Library Journal
"Browsers will find previously unknown material, as well as new light on what they have already grasped."--Times Literary Supplement
"Unexpected and thought-provoking essays such as the one on Henri Matisse or the compelling explication on "Oxen of the Sun" contribute to this must-have encyclopedia for Joyce lovers on the run." --Literature in Transition
"This unique volume...gathers an impressive amount of information about Joyce in one tidy package. This is a delightful and helpful volume...A worthy candidate for serious literature collections."-- Library Journal

"Browsers will find previously unknown material, as well as new light on what they have already grasped."--Times Literary Supplement

"Unexpected and thought-provoking essays such as the one on Henri Matisse or the compelling explication on "Oxen of the Sun" contribute to this must-have encyclopedia for Joyce lovers on the run." --Literature in Transition

About the Author

A. Nicholas Fargnoli is Professor of Theology and English at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, New York. He is vice president of the James Joyce Society and founder of the Finnegans Wake Society of New York that meets regularly at the historic Gotham Book Mart in New York City.Michael Patrick Gillespie is Professor of English at Marquette University. He is the author of Reading the Book Himself: Narrative Strategies in the Works of James Joyce (1989).

Edition details

• Publisher: Facts On File Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816029040
• ISBN 13: 9780816029044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304