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... Joyce's work . Twelve years after his death one has already to talk about the layman where Joyce is concerned , for the compiling of works of exegesis of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake has become a major academic industry , especially in ...
... Joyce's work . Twelve years after his death one has already to talk about the layman where Joyce is concerned , for the compiling of works of exegesis of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake has become a major academic industry , especially in ...
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... Joyce's purposes , an intensely local novel . The three main characters we know almost wholly from the inside , but Joyce's way of rendering their inner lives differs with each . The characters in Virginia Woolf's novels tend to think ...
... Joyce's purposes , an intensely local novel . The three main characters we know almost wholly from the inside , but Joyce's way of rendering their inner lives differs with each . The characters in Virginia Woolf's novels tend to think ...
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... Joyce creates an image of femaleness that can be compared only with Chaucer's Wife of Bath . Marion Bloom has the fullness , the rankness , the sensuality , the whole- hearted acceptance of life of a Magna Mater , an earth - goddess ...
... Joyce creates an image of femaleness that can be compared only with Chaucer's Wife of Bath . Marion Bloom has the fullness , the rankness , the sensuality , the whole- hearted acceptance of life of a Magna Mater , an earth - goddess ...
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