R. H. Winnick

Joyce's Choices

New Textual Parallels in James Joyce's 'Dubliners', 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', and 'Ulysses'

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This major new study of the textual parallels that permeate James Joyce's three most widely read works--'Dubliners', 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', and 'Ulysses'--documents and discusses some eight hundred instances, just over seven hundred of them in 'Ulysses' alone, of previously unrecognized, unidentified, or misidentified echoes, most of them verbatim, of antecedent texts ranging from major and minor works of English, Irish, Italian, French and other literatures to the poems, plays, popular songs, hymns, comic operas, triple-deckers, dime novels, penny dreadfuls, and print advertisements of his own day.By meticulously identifying hundreds of previously unknown instances of such intertextual echoes, such conscious or unconscious literary borrowings, Winnick's study complements prior works on Joyce's allusive practices by, among others, Weldon Thornton, Don Gifford, and, most recently and comprehensively, Sam Slote, Marc A. Mamigonian, and John Turner, shedding important new light on Joyce's reading, thematic intentions, and creative technique.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Book Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 919g
• ISBN-13: 9781805114154
• ISBN-10: 1805114158
• Artikelnr.: 75865462

Autorenporträt

R. H. Winnick earned his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Princeton University in 1976, receiving dissertation credit for his co-authorship, as a graduate student, of Robert Frost: The Later Years, 1938-1963 (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977), vol. 3 of the late Lawrance Thompson's Pulitzer Prize-winning (for vol. 2) 'official' Frost biography. He next researched an authorized biography of the American poet, playwright, educator, journalist, and statesman Archibald MacLeish, and edited Letters of Archibald MacLeish, 1907 to 1982 (Houghton Mifflin, 1983). Winnick's next book, Tennyson's Poems: New Textual Parallels, published in 2019 by Open Book Publishers, documented more than a thousand previously unrecognized, unidentified, or misidentified textual parallels in the work of that poet, and has since been accessed online or downloaded more than thirty thousand times. He has also published sixteen article-length studies on Chaucer, Sidney, Shakespeare, Melville, Clough, Hardy, and Larkin, appearing in, among other journals, The Chaucer Review, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Imagination, The Hardy Review, and About Larkin.