Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/2007 archive
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Seamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Along with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf, he is a key figure in the development of the modernist novel. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922). His other major works are the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
Although most of his adult life was spent outside the country, Joyce's Irish experiences are essential to his writings and provide all of the settings for his fiction and much of their subject matter. In particular, his rocky early relationship with the Irish Catholic Church is reflected by a similar conflict in his character Stephen Dedalus, who appears in several of his works. His fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin and reflects his family life and the events and friends (and enemies) from his school and college days; Ulysses is set with precision in the real streets and alleyways of the city. As the result of the combination of this attention to one place and his lengthy travels throughout Europe, he became both one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the great English language modernists.
- February 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/February 2007
- March 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/March 2007
- April 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/April 2007
- May 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/May 2007
- June 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/June 2007
- July 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/July 2007
- August 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/August 2007
- September 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/September 2007
- October 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/October 2007
- November 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/November 2007
- December 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/December 2007
This is an archive of article summaries that have appeared in the Selected biography section of Portal:Poetry in 2007. For past archives, see the complete archive page.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Seamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Along with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf, he is a key figure in the development of the modernist novel. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922). His other major works are the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
Although most of his adult life was spent outside the country, Joyce's Irish experiences are essential to his writings and provide all of the settings for his fiction and much of their subject matter. In particular, his rocky early relationship with the Irish Catholic Church is reflected by a similar conflict in his character Stephen Dedalus, who appears in several of his works. His fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin and reflects his family life and the events and friends (and enemies) from his school and college days; Ulysses is set with precision in the real streets and alleyways of the city. As the result of the combination of this attention to one place and his lengthy travels throughout Europe, he became both one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the great English language modernists.
- February 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/February 2007
- March 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/March 2007
- April 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/April 2007
- May 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/May 2007
- June 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/June 2007
- July 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/July 2007
- August 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/August 2007
- September 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/September 2007
- October 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/October 2007
- November 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/November 2007
- December 2007
Portal:Poetry/Selected biography archive/December 2007
