Richard Ellmann's scholarly work is notable for its striking liveliness and clarity and its genuine illumination of the writers and works with which he dealt. His life of James Joyce, published in 1959, received more commendation and critical praise than any previous literary biography.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 820.9
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- e-uk-en
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- 0773507078 9780773562073
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- PN85
- LCCN Item number
- L44 1989eb
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- 1 electronic text (xix, 499 p., [8] p. of plates)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00204568 (OCoLC)229431512 (CaOOCEL)407468
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Photographs 10
- Preface 12
- INTRODUCTION. RICHARD ELLMANN: THE CRITIC AS ARTIST 14
- 'HEROIC WORK, HEROIC BEING': AVOID THE VALEDICTORY 22
- ELLMANN'S ROAD TO XANADU 25
- WITH DICK IN DUBLIN, 1946 34
- RICHARD ELLMANN'S MICHAUX: A PUBLISHER'S RECOLLECTIONS 44
- RICHARD ELLMANN AND FILM COLLABORATION 50
- THE OSCAR WILDE PLAYING CARDS 52
- POEMS 54
- POEM 56
- 'ORANGES—APPLES—SUGARSTICKS ...' JOYCEAN ASSOCIATIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD ELLMANN 58
- A PORTRAIT OF JAMES JOYCE'S BIOGRAPHER 63
- THE CONCEPT OF MODERNISM 70
- A MODERNIST NOESIS 81
- NORTHROP FRYE AND THE BIBLE 92
- POE'S ANGELS 103
- ISABEL ARCHER: THE NEW WOMAN AS AMERICAN 106
- HENRY JAMES, HISTORY, AND 'STORY' 125
- LYTTON STRACHEY AND THE PROSE OF EMPIRE 143
- THE WRITING "I" HAS VANISHED': VIRGINIA WOOLF'S LAST SHORT FICTIONS 155
- STRANGE MEETINGS: ELIOT, POUND, AND LAFORGUE 167
- 'SUFFICIENT GROUND TO STAND ON': POUND, WILLIAMS, AND AMERICAN HISTORY 174
- D.H. LAWRENCE'S PHYSICAL RELIGION: THE DEBT TO TYLOR, FROBENIUS, AND NUTTALL 182
- NOTES ON A LATE POEM BY STEVENS 188
- THE DIFFICULT DEBUT OF DENIS JOHNSTON'S 'OLD LADY' 196
- IN SEARCH OF HORATIO'S IDENTITY (VIA YEATS) 212
- LABOUR AND MEMORY IN THE LOVE POETRY OF W.B. YEATS 225
- W.B. YEATS AND THAT HIGH HORSE 241
- 'WHAT CAN I BUT ENUMERATE OLD THEMES' 255
- YEATS'S STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS 274
- YEATS: THE MASKER AND THE MASKS 288
- YOURS AFFLY, DOBBS': GEORGE YEATS TO HER HUSBAND, WINTER 1931-32 309
- JOYCE AS LETTER WRITER 333
- JOYCE AND MYTHOLOGY 339
- MR LEOPOLD BLOOM AND THE LOST VERMEER 349
- THERE'S A MEDIUM IN ALL THINGS': JOYCEAN READINGS 362
- TRANSITION YEARS: JAMES JOYCE AND MODERNIST ART 380
- 'ALL THAT FALL': SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE BIBLE 389
- BECKETT'S RECENT ACTIVITIES: THE LIVELINESS OF DEAD IMAGINATION 403
- THE FATAL CIRCLE: COMPOSITION AND DIRECTION OF COME AND GO 413
- THE CONSOLATION OF ART: OSCAR WILDE AND DANTE 423
- WILDE'S CRITICISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE 431
- PLAYING IN EARNEST 436
- Richard Ellmann: A Chronology 454
- Richard Ellmann: A Bibliography 456
- Notes 470
- Notes on Contributors 504
- Index 510
- A 510
- B 510
- C 512
- D 512
- E 513
- F 514
- G 515
- H 516
- I 517
- J 517
- K 518
- L 518
- M 519
- N 520
- O 520
- P 521
- Q 522
- R 522
- S 522
- T 524
- U 525
- V 525
- W 525
- Y 526
- Z 528
