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A chapter from of the book "James Joyce" is presented. This chapter offers a chronology of events in the life of Irish author James Joyce. He was born James Augustine Joyce to John Stanislaus and Mary Jane in Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland on February 2, 1882 and enrolled at Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare in 1888. In 1931, Joyce married Nora Barnacle in London, England.

Chapter 19 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. This chapter focuses on the novel "Finnegans Wake" as a unique achievement of Irish author James Joyce. It compares the novel to Irish megaliths due to its massive, strange, cryptic construction with embellishments that are impossible to interpret. Also noted is the function of the literary work as not just a historical memory in light of its responsiveness to contemporary culture and prophetic quality.

Chapter 18 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. The chapter looks at the indications of aging and the bardic attributes of Irish author James Joyce. His constant weakness has been his eyes as demonstrated by his eye attack in Zurich, Switzerland and threat of glaucoma in 1922. The belief of Joyce that Ireland should listen to him reportedly show his bardic conviction and his refusal to surrender an ancient Irish version of the idea of the Irish artist as legislator.

Chapter 17 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. This chapter discusses the development of Irish author James Joyce as the executive director and sole inspiration of his companions. One of his indispensable followers was Russian émigré Paul Léon. Also noted is the friendship between Joyce and another Irish writer, James Stephens.

Chapter 15 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. This chapter recalls the stay of Irish author James Joyce in Paris, France starting July 20, 1920. The Joyces were financially supported by English feminist, communist and avant-garde supporter Harriet Shaw Weaver. It is noted that Joyce believed French criticism would play a key role in his way to the English-speaking world.

Chapter 16 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. The chapter focuses on the emergence of Ireland as a free state and the perspectives on the issue by Irish author James Joyce. The reluctance of the author to return to Ireland is partly attributed to the development of the Irish Free State. Joyce reportedly recognized the oppressive features of the new culture and repressions as indication of persistent weakness by 1932.

Chapter 14 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. The chapter looks at the themes and styles in the novel "Ulysses," by Irish author James Joyce. It mentions that Joyce considers advertising canvasser Leopold Bloom as paradigmatic modern Irishman who represents a direction in which Ireland needed to take. The tenth chapter of the novel provided a conspectus while the eleventh one is said to be musical in style.

Chapter 13 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. This chapter provides information on the creation of the novel "Ulysses," by Irish author James Joyce. He began planning the short story called "Ulysses" in 1907, wrote chapters 13 and 14 when he returned to Trieste, Italy and the last four chapters in Paris, France. He used the Homerian epic "Odyssey" as a structural basis of his novel.

Chapter 12 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. The chapter examines the experience of Irish author James Joyce and his mistress Nora Barnacle during the British war in Zurich, Switzerland in 1915. Also noted are the reasons behind the decision of Joyce to join Claud Sykes in establishing the English Players theatre company to perform plays in English. His book "Ulysses" reportedly made caustic jokes about British representatives abroad.

Chapter 11 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. This chapter cites the significance of the novel "A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man," by Irish author James Joyce. The role of Joyce as the vivisectionist of his own soul in the novel is explained. The sentimental education of the hero is cited as a key obscure development at work in the literature.

Chapter 10 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. The chapter recalls the struggle of Irish author James Joyce to get his short story collection "Dubliners" published in Trieste, Italy. It points out that Joyce has been humiliated by Ulsterman George Roberts of the publisher Maunsel and Co. when he demanded concessions. The beginning of Joyce's friendship with American intellectual Ezra Pound in December 1913 reportedly marked the turning point in his life and career.

Chapter 9 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. This chapter assesses the role of the Italian city of Trieste as an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the reversed perspective of Ireland by author James Joyce. A comparison of the geography and politics of Trieste and Dublin, Ireland is offered. He left the Italian in the summer of 1920 after its freedom was granted because a new Trieste has little appeal to him.

Chapter 8 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. The chapter examines the significance of "Dubliners," a collection of short stories penned by Irish author James Joyce. The collection focuses on the condition of Dublin at the turn of the 20th century and explains his reason for living the country following the death of his mother. His story "The Dead" reportedly served as Joyce's homage to a history of suffering due to the famine.

Chapter 7 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. This chapter considers the continental exile of Irish author James Joyce. He and his mistress Nora Barnacle left Ireland on October 8, 1904 for London, England and traveled to Paris, France, Zurich, Switzerland, and Trieste, Italy. The travel of Joyce to Europe reportedly show that he identified with the tradition of Irish saints and scholars during the dark ages. Also noted is his identification with the tradition of Gaelic emigration as political exile in Europe.

Chapter 6 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. The chapter looks at the significance of the setting of the book "Ulysses," by James Joyce in Dublin, Ireland on June 16, 1904. It mentions that Joyce has identified the contemporary Irish Catholic Church with English petit bourgeois culture and its economic fetish in his book "Stephen Hero." The real-life dilemma and symbolic predicament of Joyce in 1904 were said to be evoked in the first three chapters of "Ulysses."

Chapter 4 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. The chapter features Irish author James Joyce as an intellectual from 1898 to 1903. It is noted that Joyce learned from D. P. Moran, founder of the journal "The Leader," but he disagreed with the nativist promotion of an Irish Ireland by Moran. Joyce remained as a Catholic intellectual despite the fact that he was a modern intellectual as a young man.

Chapter 5 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. This chapter describes Irish author James Joyce as a literary critic from the late 1890s to the early 1900s. An account of the painting "Ecce Homo," by Mihály Munkácsy was one of his first ventures into criticism. The critical approach of Joyce while writing for the conservative organ "Express" is said to be wry and detached.

Chapter 3 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. This chapter focuses on author James Joyce as a young man in Dublin, Ireland in the 1890s. The period was said to be defined by the appearance of such organizations as the Celtic Literary Society and the Daughters of Ireland and the inception of the Anglo-Irish Literary Revival. Also noted is the displeasure of the author with the art produced by the Anglo-Irish Revival.

Chapter 2 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. The chapter looks at the influence of Parnellism and Fenianism on the middle-class family of author James Joyce in Dublin, Ireland. His father John Stanislaus was appointed as a rate collector with the Dublin civil service following the approval of the British chief secretary of Ireland but he lost the post due to drinking problems. The Joyce family belonged to the stratum of Dublin Catholic society that was empowered by Parnellism.

Chapter 1 of the book "James Joyce" is presented. This chapter discusses the fame of Irish author James Joyce in the 20th century and his biography. It points out that Joyce was turned into a modern European genius and has emerged as a hero of the modernist vanguard when he moved to Paris, France in 1920. The common feature of Joycean biography is the presentation of his life backwards.

A chapter from the book "James Joyce" is presented. The chapter describes the personality of Irish author James Joyce. The author is said to be narcissistic, vain and self-seeking. The ability of Joyce to match the greatest English writers is attributed to his tendency to undertook his task of transforming a historical structure with openness.