Joyce, James

Cultural  

1. A twentieth-century Irish author known for his novels, especially Finnegans Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, and for his short stories, especially the collection Dubliners.

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Ulysses, a novel revolutionary in its form, is almost entirely concerned with the actions and thoughts of three characters on a single day. (See Ulysses under “Mythology and Folklore.”)

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It was a veritable temple devoted to the past two or three centuries of first-rate, secondhand and antiquarian books: the Brontë sisters, the Mitford sisters, George Eliot, James Joyce, James Jones, Henry James.

From New York Times

Photograph: Anne Joyce James Gray has come to Cannes with a gloomy and baffling period set in 1920s New York among the huddled masses yearning to be free in the new world.

From The Guardian

While courting Joyce, James met Freud and she appointed him as boilerman, handyman and fire watcher.

From The Guardian

And you can see the influence of that other Joyce – James Joyce: the writing flows.

From Salon

Matt Prior spilled a high catch from Ed Joyce, James Anderson let a shot by Niall O’Brien sail through his hands on the boundary for six and Michael Yardy dropped Cusack on 32 off his own bowling.

From New York Times