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Summer reading is a byword for light escapism – but it can mean anything, from catching up on the classics to a new romance novel. Julian Novitz travels to the 19th century to trace its evolution.
It might seem a daunting task, but the trick is to not start reading from the beginning.
By the standards of the day, Ulysses was extremely sexually explicit.
Little is known, but much is speculated, about James Joyce’s daughter and muse, Lucia.
Around the world today, fans of James Joyce’s Ulysses will celebrate Bloomsday. This experimental novel can be bewildering to read, but for those who persist, it is a ‘feast’ of a book.
The great Irish novelist saw himself as European first, Irish second. There’s a lesson in that for the UK.
Smell is the Cinderella of the senses in Anglophone literature, but James Joyce wrote an olfactory revolution. His treatment of the science of smell was astonishingly prescient.
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Lecturer in Liberal Arts and English, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor, Literary Studies, Deakin University
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Author: Reframing A Portrait of the Artist: Joyce and the phenomenological imagination, Western Sydney University
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PhD candidate, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Profesora del Departamento de Lengua Española de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Valladolid
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Professor of Modern Literature, University of East Anglia
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Leeds
