Description
Confronting a host of assumptions, misprisions, and prejudices, A. Nicholas Fargnoli and Michael Patrick Gillespie contend that Joyce's play, Exiles, deserves the same serious study as his fiction and stands on the cutting edge of modern drama.
About the Author
A. Nicholas Fargnoli is dean emeritus of humanities at Molloy College. He is author and editor of several books and coeditor of "Ulysses" in Critical Perspective.
Michael Patrick Gillespie is professor of English at Florida International University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including James Joyce and the Exilic Imagination.
Reviews
"Fargnoli and Gillespie have gifted us what should become the standard text of Exiles. For the first time, the play is available to us as Joyce wanted it to appear."-Irish Studies Review
"A fitting tribute to the 100th anniversary of Exiles."-English Literature in Transition
"Provide[s] us . . . with a remarkably established text as well as with the reprinting of some outstanding, thought-provoking essays."-James Joyce Quarterly
"This companion represents an excellent place for new readers to begin and for lapsed Joyceans to renew their acquaintance with this provocative play."-James Joyce Literary Supplement
Book Information
ISBN 9780813064376
Author James Joyce
Format Paperback
Page Count 364
Imprint University Press of Florida
Publisher University Press of Florida
Weight(grams) 508g
About the Author
A. Nicholas Fargnoli is dean emeritus of humanities at Molloy College. He is author and editor of several books and coeditor of "Ulysses" in Critical Perspective.
Michael Patrick Gillespie is professor of English at Florida International University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including James Joyce and the Exilic Imagination.
Reviews
"Fargnoli and Gillespie have gifted us what should become the standard text of Exiles. For the first time, the play is available to us as Joyce wanted it to appear."-Irish Studies Review
"A fitting tribute to the 100th anniversary of Exiles."-English Literature in Transition
"Provide[s] us . . . with a remarkably established text as well as with the reprinting of some outstanding, thought-provoking essays."-James Joyce Quarterly
"This companion represents an excellent place for new readers to begin and for lapsed Joyceans to renew their acquaintance with this provocative play."-James Joyce Literary Supplement
Book Information
ISBN 9780813064376
Author James Joyce
Format Paperback
Page Count 364
Imprint University Press of Florida
Publisher University Press of Florida
Weight(grams) 508g
