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1 online resource (xix, 499 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Introduction : Richard Ellmann : the critic as artist / The Editors -- "Heroic work, heroic being" : avoid the valedictory / Sylvan Schendler -- Ellmann's road to Xanadu / Ellsworth Mason -- With Dick in Dublin, 1946 / John V. Kelleher -- Richard Ellmann's Michaux : a publisher's recollections / James Laughlin -- Richard Ellmann and film collaboration / Seán Ó Mórdha -- The Oscar Wilde playing cards / Rosita Fanto -- Poems / Andonis Decavalles -- Poem / Brendan Kennelly -- "Oranges, apples, sugarsticks ..." Joycean associations : an interview with Richard Ellmann / Christie McDonald -- A portrait of James Joyce's biographer : an interview with Richard Ellmann / William K. Robertson -- The concept of modernism / Christopher Butler |
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A modernist noesis / Bruce Johnson -- Northrop Frye and the Bible / Frank Kermode -- Poe's angels / Charles A. Huttar -- Isabel Archer : the new woman as American / Declan Kiberd -- Henry James, history, and "story" / Charles Feidelson -- Lytton Strachey and the prose of empire / S.P. Rosenbaum -- "The writing "I" has vanished" : Virginia Woolf's last short fictions / Susan Dick -- Strange meetings : Eliot, Pound, and LaForgue / A. Walton Litz -- "Sufficient ground to stand" : Pound, Williams, and American history / Carol H. Cantrell -- D.H. Lawrence's physical religion : the debt to Tylor, Frobenius, and Nuttall / Daniel J. Schneider -- Notes on a late poem by Stevens / Denis Donoghue -- The difficult debut of Denis Johnston's "old lady" / Joseph Ronsley |
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In search of Horatio's identity (via Yeats) / R.W. Desai -- Labour and memory in the love poetry of W.B. Yeats / Elizabeth Butler Cullingford -- W.B. Yeats and that high horse / Jon Stallworthy -- "What can I but enumerate old themes" / Peter Kuch -- Yeat's stream of consciousness / Terence Diggory -- Yeats : the masker and the masks / James Flannery -- "Yours affly, Dobbs" : George Yeats to her husband, winter 1931-32 / Ann Saddlemyer -- Joyce as letter writer / Richard Ellmann Radio Broadcast -- Joyce and mythology / Terry Eagleton -- Mr Leopold Bloom and the lost Vermeer / Mary T. Teynolds -- "There's a medium in all things" : Joycean readings / Fritz Senn -- Transition years : James Joyce and modernist art / Alison Armstrong -- "All that fall" : Samuel Beckett and the Bible / Vivian Mercier -- Beckett's recent activities : the liveliness of dead imagination / Daniel Albright |
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The fatal circle : composition and direction of Come and go / Dougald McMillan -- The consolation of art : Oscar Wilde and Dante / Dominic Manganiello -- Wilde's criticism : theory and practice / Jonathan Culler -- Playing in earnest / Thomas R. Whitaker |
| Summary |
Ellmann's sensitivity to what it meant to be an artist shaped his work from the outset: "The life of an artist ... differs from the lives of other persons in that its events are becoming artistic sources even as they command his present attention. Instead of allowing each day, pushed back by the next, to lapse into imprecise memory, he shapes again the experiences which have shaped him." Richard Ellmann died in 1987. His life and work have touched the lives of many. Some of the essays in this collection commemorate Richard Ellmann and his commitment to Twentieth Century literature: most provide a continuing investigation of the Twentieth Century literature to which he devoted his carrer. Contributors include: Alison Armstrong, Daniel Albright, Christopher Butler, Carol Cantrell, Jonathan Culler, Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Andonis Decavelles, Rupin Desai, Susan Dick, Terence Diggory, Terry Eagleton, Rosita Fanto, Charles Feidelson, James Flannery, Charles Huttar, Bruce Johnson, John Kelleher, Brendan Kennelly, Frank Kermode, Declan Kiberd, Peter Kuch, Bruce Johnson, James Laughlin, A. Walton Litz, Dominic Manganiello, Ellsworth Mason, Christie McDonald, Dougald McMillan, Sean O'Mordha, Vivian Mercier, Mary T. Reynolds, William K. Robertson, Joseph Ronsley, S.P. Rosenbaum, Ann Saddlemyer, Sylvan Schendler, Daniel Schneider, Fritz Senn, Jon Stallworthy, Lonnie Weatherby, Thomas Whitaker, and Elaine Yarosky |
| Bibliography |
"Richard Ellmann: a bibliography / Lonnie Weatherby and Elaine Yarosky": pages 427-439 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-474) |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987.
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| SUBJECT |
Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987 fast |
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Ellmann, Richard. swd |
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English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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English literature -- Irish authors
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Bibliografie
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987.
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Dick, Susan
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| ISBN |
9780773562073 |
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0773562079 |
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0773507078 |
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9780773507074 |
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