James Joyce: A Literary Giant of Experimentation

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This paper examines the life and works of writer, James Aloysius Joyce. The paper describes his early writing career and how his career was impacted by his life. The successes that Joyce enjoyed and the aspects of his writing that were unique and inspired are also discussed. In addition, the paper presents a timeline for the production of his most well-known works.

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"At fifty-seven in 1939, Joyce's Finnegans Wake is finally published in London and New York. In the midst of these times, Joyce continued to devote his personal life to the care of his daughter who had slipped further into mental illness. He was also still agonized by his near-blindness while he underwent eye operations. Exhausted, Joyce did not pursue anymore writing, and in 1940, once again, he moved his family to Zurich from Paris because of the threat of WWII. Just three weeks short of his fifty-ninth birthday in 1941, Joyce died after an abdominal operation for a perforated ulcer."

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• Gioia, Dana, and X.J. Kennedy. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Pearson Education Inc. 1995-2008. 4 June 2008. <http://wps.ablongman.com/long_kennedy_lfpd_9/0,9130,1489989-,00.html>.
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