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...For at least 15 years Joyce DiDonato has been one of a handful superlative singers equally at ease in comedy and tragedy, and equally eloquent in four languages....
...Luka Ivan Jukic’s review of Patrick Joyce’s Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World is surely right that there is no need to romanticise the world of “near-unimaginable toil and suffering...
...“If you look at James Joyce you see a very pure artist,” she says. “You can deduce a kind of a political leaning or sympathy in Joyce, but it’s not explicit . . . I don’t really like polemics.”...
..., Hemingway, Salinger and the “intense, investigative, melancholy, recursive, oblique mindset” of Thomas Browne, the 16th-century English polymath....
...Now Harold Fry makes another fine English eccentric....
...James Joyce himself could not have written an epiphany to beat it. How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney Harvill Secker £16.99, 304 pages...
...Some users joked that it had ingested acid — or too much James Joyce....
...Little-read and under-published, he’d be broke were it not for his day job as a professor of English literature, and he riles at sightings of his books in the black sections of bookstores....
...One of the oddest aspects of the novel is the peculiar contract that it forges — how wonderfully ambiguous is the English language — between itself and the reader....
...work further, using the figure of the Wife of Bath to write the story of both the medieval everywoman and of the Wife’s own long literary afterlife as imagined by, among many others, Shakespeare, James Joyce...
...James Joyce lived in Trieste on and off between 1904 and 1915, scraping a living teaching English while working on Dubliners and Ulysses; one of his students was Italo Svevo, author of the shapeshifting...
...There are also accomplished performances from Sarah Morris as his long-suffering English wife Betty and Ruairí Heading as smarmy hanger-on Mush....
...He went to the same school that the writer James Joyce had attended 70 years earlier. When he was a kid, Christy’s family lived in the UK for a bit and he sometimes puts on an English accent....
...This was despite the fact it was not the best time to be a very English-sounding flâneur (stroller) when the IRA prisoner and MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Bobby Sands, was dying on hunger strike in...
...to the execution with the long English names....
...So it’s nice to have Joyce to commemorate”....
...With Elizabeth Bishop’s translations into English, which began in the 1960s, they a reached a wide readership....
...Ulysses does not seek to make Ireland exotic or alarming for the English reader, as so many Irish novelists before Joyce did....
...In 1973, the English writer Anthony Burgess (55 books, including 33 novels) felt moved to defend his tribe in an interview for the Paris Review: “I’ve been annoyed less by sneers at my alleged overproduction...
...He managed to escape from the office on the night of St Patrick’s Day to celebrate at a nearby Irish pub named after James Joyce....
...Register and tone are constantly switching, the tempo alters, snatches of demotic English give way to German and French....
...Following graduation, I received a fellowship to earn a master’s degree in English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison....
...Think of Joseph Conrad, or James Joyce. Had the Polish seafarer and the itinerant Irishman never packed their suitcases, their novels could not have been written....
...His long life as a literary critic makes him unable, it seems, to resist re-reviewing Midnight’s Children, for instance; invoking everything from the Keystone Kops to James Joyce, describing Rushdie’s “distracted...
...many assumed she was long dead — perhaps by her own hand, like one of her marginalised women characters — Jean Rhys was rediscovered, living in impoverished obscurity in a damp, unlovely bungalow in the English...
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