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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled Introducing Joyce about Joyce, Joyce's, James with the genre: Literature & Fiction, History & Criticism.. Start with the sentence 'James Joyce ranks alongside such figures as Picasso, Schoenberg and Stravinsky as one of the great pioneers of modernism'.
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conversations.value: James Joyce ranks alongside such figures as Picasso, Schoenberg and Stravinsky as one of the great pioneers of modernism. But a myth of Joyce's "difficulty" has taken root, discouraging many readers from approaching his work. This is a great pity, because his writings are deeply human, enormously comic, and compelling reading. Although Joyce spent much of his life in self-imposed exile, all of his writings are obsessively and microscopically focused on Dublin's fair city. the author, Irish Senator, writer and Trinity College don, provides an introductory map to the labyrinth of Joyce's visionary Dublin. He takes us step by step from the early stories "Dubliners", and "A portrait of the artist as a young man", into the sprawling comic universe of "Ulysses", and finally to the mythic dreamworld of "Finnegans Wake".
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conversations.value: Introducing Joyce
  Richards was initially enthusiastic, but the printer rebelled at being asked to print stories he considered indecent, like "Two Gallants", and containing the word "bloody" for which he had a special aversion.
  Oh, one eyed printer! Why has he descended with his blue pencil, full of the Holy Ghost, upon these passages and allowed his companions to set up in type reports of divorce cases and ragging cases and cases of criminal assault?
  For nearly ten years, Joyce fought a lonely indomitable battle against prudish printers and prim publishers.
  Bravado or defence mechanism – the same is found when Joyce first met the established poet, W.B. Yeats, to whom he said on leaving, "I am twenty, how old are you?"
  THIRSTY SIX... 37 ACTUALLY. I THOUGHT AS MUCH. I HAVE MET YOU TOO LATE. YOU'RE TOO OLD FOR ME TO HELP YOU.
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conversations.value: The schema below names the sections and chapters, based on Homer's **Odyssey** , which are untitled in Joyce's **Ulysses.** It supplies the Dublin locations, the hour-by-hour schedule and the symbolic themes Joyce develops.
  Let's look at an episode in Homer, "The Cyclops", and then see how Joyce transforms it in **Ulysses.**
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conversations.value: Other good critical introductions to Joyce are, **Dublin's Joyce** , by Hugh Kenner, Beacon Books, **1962** , and, very helpful to the average reader, **A Reader's Guide to James Joyce** by William York Tindall, Thames and Hudson, **1959** , out of print but available in good libraries.
  For help with **Ulysses** , Stuart Gilbert's early study with his chapter by chapter breakdown, **James Joyce's Ulysses** , Alfred Knopf, **1952** , is good but again will require looking up in a library. The same is true of Weldon Thornton's **Allusions in Ulysses** , Chapel Hill, **1968** , a page by page annotation of the text which unravels many mysteries. A very engaging view of Joyce and his method of composition will be found in **James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses** by his friend, the Cornish sculptor, Frank Budgen, Oxford University Press, **1989.**
  A useful introduction to **Finnegans Wake** is the **Shorter Finnegans Wake** edited by Anthony Burgess, Faber, **1966. A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake** by J. Campbell and H.M. Morton, Harcourt, Brace & World, **1944** , may take some finding, but it will help the reader "crack" the system. For the enthusiast who wants an almost word by word "translation", try **Annotations to Finnegans Wake** by Roland McHugh, Routledge & Kegan Paul, **1980.**
  Also recommended by Carl Flint: Minit Classics present **Ulysses** , a mini-comic strip by David Lasky, Box 181, 4505 University Way, N.E. Seattle, WA 98105, USA. $1 or write for catalogue.
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conversations.value: Other good critical introductions to Joyce are, **Dublin's Joyce** , by Hugh Kenner, Beacon Books, **1962** , and, very helpful to the average reader, **A Reader's Guide to James Joyce** by William York Tindall, Thames and Hudson, **1959** , out of print but available in good libraries.
  For help with **Ulysses** , Stuart Gilbert's early study with his chapter by chapter breakdown, **James Joyce's Ulysses** , Alfred Knopf, **1952** , is good but again will require looking up in a library. The same is true of Weldon Thornton's **Allusions in Ulysses** , Chapel Hill, **1968** , a page by page annotation of the text which unravels many mysteries. A very engaging view of Joyce and his method of composition will be found in **James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses** by his friend, the Cornish sculptor, Frank Budgen, Oxford University Press, **1989.**
  A useful introduction to **Finnegans Wake** is the **Shorter Finnegans Wake** edited by Anthony Burgess, Faber, **1966. A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake** by J. Campbell and H.M. Morton, Harcourt, Brace & World, **1944** , may take some finding, but it will help the reader "crack" the system. For the enthusiast who wants an almost word by word "translation", try **Annotations to Finnegans Wake** by Roland McHugh, Routledge & Kegan Paul, **1980.**
  Also recommended by Carl Flint: Minit Classics present **Ulysses** , a mini-comic strip by David Lasky, Box 181, 4505 University Way, N.E. Seattle, WA 98105, USA.