ISBN Occasional Critical and Political Writing book 416 pages

I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself but I think I must have a talent for journalism' James Joyce's non-fictional writings address diverse issues: aesthetics the functions of the press censorship Irish cultural history England's literature and empire. This collection includes newspaper articles reviews lectures and propagandizing essays that are consciously public direct and communicative. It covers forty years of Joyce's life and maps important changes in his opinions about politics especially Irish politics about the relationship of literature to history and about writers who remained important to him such as Mangan Blake Defoe Ibsen Wilde and Shaw. These pieces also clarify and illuminate the transformations in Joyce's fiction from Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to the first drafts of Ulysses. Gathering together more than fifty essays several of which have never been available in an English edition this volume is the most complete and the most helpfully annotated collection. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more.