Blog Posts - James Joyce

One Rioter talks about the authors she loves to hate -- lovingly, of course!

I concur with the conventional literary historians who credit Chekhov and Joyce for developing the modern short story that does not rely on highly dramatic events but finds greater meaning in the depiction of the something that looks like a typical t...

Words cannot explain how much I loved this amazing piece of work by Joyce!  I was astounded and flabbergasted by his knowledge and use of language.  The structure of Ulysses is based on Homer’s The Odyssey, which I did read first, however...

The symmetrically named Ford Madox Ford was actually born Ford Madox Hueffer on December 17, 1873. He changed his name in 1919, presumably because he thought it sounded too Germanic in the aftermath of World War I. Although Ford wrote … Continu...

Of course there are great pubs in Dublin, Limerick and Galway, but what about Paris pubs? We have searched out the most authentic Irish pubs in Paris, because sometimes you just gotta have some pub grub and an authentic pint! Kitty O’SheaR...

I was thinking today about how various books have become interrelated in my reading choices.  A couple of years ago I was reading Maugham’s Of Human Bondage and by chance picked up another book where one of the characters was also reading Of H...

Stream of Consciousness to explore the characters in Mrs. Dalloway MODERNISM Cerebral game playing and philosophical speculation along with deep introspection and religious skepticism exemplify the preoccupation of modernism- A […] The post Str...

I'm an admirer of Hemingway's work, for the most part.  I'm not all that fond of his novels, except for The Sun Also Rises.  It seems to me that his longer works become disconnected, and lack impact as a whole (though parts of them are impr...

Let’s be clear: there is no such thing as the Kanye West Book Club. And, if Yeezy himself is to be believed, there won’t be. He’s gone on record about books, and the gist is that he doesn’t have much … Continued You ju...

AUTOR: James JoyceTÍTULO: Retrato del Artista AdolescenteEDITORIAL: Faro, S.A. (Primera edición)AÑO: ¿1968?PÁGINAS: 274RANK: 10/10Por Alejandro JiménezEl beso de una prostituta, la hostia en la lengua y la ternura de su madre fueron los símbol...

HUBERT HUMPHREY DIED 37 YEARS AGO Waverly, Minnesota (JFK+50) Hubert Horatio Humphrey*, the 38th Vice-President of the United States, died 37 years ago today, January 13, 1978.  The former Vice-President succumbed to a fight with...

The Delucchi’s needed to get back to New York in the morning, so they went back to the hotel to rest up. Tony said that they plan to move down in here in the spring, which I’m sure will make Teresa happy. Jimmy and Joey are also thinking...

James Joyce e-Book.Aos interessados em ler no original o romance revolucionário e monumental de James Joyce, Ulisses, podem encontrar uma boa versão em e-book, legal, disponível na Internet, para tanto basta ir a página do Scribd.com, no seguinte...

The city of Trieste is in border country. Follow the coast all the way around, as James Joyce did in the early years of the twentieth century, and pretty soon you’ll be in Slovenia, with Croatia just a few miles further south. You are as likely to...

  The city of Trieste is in border country. Follow the coast all the way around, as James Joyce did in the early years of the twentieth century, and pretty soon you’ll be in Slovenia, with Croatia just a few miles further south. You are as lik...

  The city of Trieste is in border country. Follow the coast all the way around, as James Joyce did in the early years of the twentieth century, and pretty soon you’ll be in Slovenia, with Croatia just a few miles further south. You are as lik...

 "Sometimes, your only available transportationis a leap of faith."~Margaret Shepard"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes, because that's where the fruit is." ~Will Rogers    "You don't always need a plan..." ~Mandy Hale"Mistakes.

Uma obra clássica da literatura mundial, um convidado expert no tema e um agradável bate-papo sobre o seu autor, seus motivos e curiosidades. Essa é a fórmula simples e certeira do programa Literatura Fundamental da Univesp TV. Em episódios disp...

Uma obra clássica da literatura mundial, um convidado expert no tema e um agradável bate-papo sobre o seu autor, seus motivos e curiosidades. Essa é a fórmula simples e certeira do programa Literatura Fundamental da Univesp TV. Em episódios disp...

Indice - LiteraturaNARRATIVA VANGUARDISTA IILOS ISMOS DE LA PROSAEl expresionismo : Refleja toda una serie de preocupaciones profundas : la magia, los sueños, la religión y la filosofía oriental, el anhelo de hermandad universal. En la poesía del...

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