Tag: James Joyce
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Nation & World
How to read ‘Ulysses’? With gratitude.
Harvard students, scholars find everyday rewards on the other side of Joyce’s century-old epic.
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Rocky path to publication for ‘most dangerous book’
Denounced as obscene, Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ exploded old ways of thinking about fiction — and the world itself.
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Overture of an opera life
James Joyce will be star of final act of Benjamin Wenzelberg’s undergrad career.
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Plotting her return
Author ZZ Packer is spending her Radcliffe year working on her newest effort, a novel titled “The Thousands” that tracks the lives of several families following the Civil War through the American Indian campaigns in the Southwest.
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‘Ulysses’ unlocked
A new book by Harvard lecturer in history and literature Kevin Birmingham tracks the challenge of bringing “Ulysses,” the masterwork by James Joyce, to the page and to the public.
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McEwan recounts his missteps
Fact-fussy readers help author to remember that a novel’s “air of reality” is among its supreme virtues.
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Treasure island
Houghton Library illustrates how the stuff of great literature is conserved, from the first jumbled box to the final neat archive.
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The history at Houghton
Houghton, a template for university literary archives everywhere, also has room for the odd: A Thoreau pencil, a Dickinson teacup, and more.