James Joyce

Dr Lee Spinks is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Friedrich Nietzsche (Routledge, 2003), and has published widely on modern and postmodern literature and culture, post-colonial writing and theory, and modern American poetry and fiction.

• Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations and Referencing ; Introduction; 1. LIFE AND CONTEXTS: (a) Introduction; (b) Childhood; (c) The University Years 1898-1902; (d) Historical and Political Contexts; (e) Literary and Cultural Contexts; (f) A First Version of Exile; (g) A Year of Living Dangerously; (h) Nora; (i) A Dubliner in Europe; (j) Towards a Portrait of the Artist; (k) Breakthrough; (l) Zurich; (m) Paris; (n) The Scandal of Ulysses; (o) The Road to Finnegans Wake; (p) Last Days; 2. WORK: Introduction; Chamber Music; Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Exiles; Ulysses; Finnegans Wake; 3. CRITICISM: Introduction; First Responses; Ulysses and After; The Reception of Finnegans Wake; The Post-War Critical Scene; Post-Structuralist Joyce; Joyce and Feminism; Psychoanalytic Criticism; Political Joyce; Chronology; Bibliography; Index

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