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    par Margot Norris ...
    Collections Livre 6 - Great Lives
    “Simply Joyce is a perfect introduction to the complex work of one of the foremost writers of the twentieth century. Margot Norris, who has devoted her professional life to opening Joyce’s canon to all levels of readers, has produced a lucid, erudite, and entertaining overview that will engage those who have heretofore been intimidated by Joyce’s reputation and will revive in others a recollection ... En savoir plus

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  • Kafka's Creatures

    Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings

    There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in English of essays devoted to illuminating this important and ubiquitous dimension of his work. The chapters here are written by an array of ... En savoir plus

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  • Joyce's Web

    The Social Unraveling of Modernism

    par Margot Norris ...
    Collections series Literary Modernism
    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake

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    par Margot Norris ...
    Originally published in 1977. The pioneer critics of Finnegans Wake hailed the work as a radical critique of language and civilization. Resuming their position, Margot Norris explains the book's most intractable uncertainties not as puzzles to be solved by a clever reader but as manifestations of a "chaosmos," a Freudian dream world of sexual transgression and social dissolution, of inauthentic ... En savoir plus

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  • Beasts of the Modern Imagination

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  • Reading Texts, Reading Lives

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  • The Value of James Joyce

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    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. A democratic impulse may be counted as an important feature of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce

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  • Joyce's Ghosts

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