TY - BOOK AU - Platt,Len TI - James Joyce : texts and contexts SN - 9781441197610 AV - PR6019.O9 Z78216 2011 U1 - 823.912 22 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Continuum KW - Joyce, James, KW - Authors, Irish KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-181) and index; Introduction to a 'biografiend' -- Early works -- Going forth by day : Ulysses -- Ulysses, Ireland, empire -- Reading Finnegans wake -- The Wake and the 1920s and 1930s -- 'I do not like that other world' : Joyce's publics N2 - This is an introduction to reading and studying Joycean texts. It surveys the key contexts -- literary, historical, political, philosophical and compositional -- which shaped and determined them. By identifying and engaging with Joyce's writing methods and style, the book opens up strategies and approaches for reading his complex texts ER -