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A major scholarly collection of international research on the reception of James Joyce in Europe
"The first comprehensive account of the enormous impact of Joyce on German modernist and postmodern writers. An indispensable book on Joyce's 'German' face."—Gerald Gillespie, Stanford University In August 1919, a production of James Joyce's Exiles was mounted at the Munich Schauspielhaus and quickly fell due to harsh criticism. The reception marked the beginning of a dynamic association between Joyce, German-language writers, and literary critics. It is this relationship that Robert Weninger analyzes in The German Joyce. Opening a new dimension of Joycean scholarship, this book provides the premier study of Joyce's impact on German-language literature and literary criticism in the twentie...
The vast body of material documenting the strong and controversial echo that James Joyce's oeuvre found in the German-speaking countries already in the author's life-time has so far never been fully registered, let alone collected and made easily accessible to a wider public. This deplorable gap of information is filled by the present volume, which reprints - from their original sources and in most cases for the first time - more than 250 texts of various kinds and provenience (reviews, articles, and essays from a wide spectrum of newspapers, periodicals, contemporary studies), thus providing an indispensable complement to a standard source-book of Joyce studies, namely Robert Deming's perti...