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  • Three years ago, Roddy Doyle, an Irish novelist, stunned the literati when he called James Joyce's "Ulysses" overrated and overlong.

    Everyone's a Critic 2008

  • On one occasion, he sang me all five verses of “Finnegan’s Wake”—the title of James Joyce’s novel, but originally an Irish drinking song.

    After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010

  • He could infactbe described as the James Joyce of the filmic world, a revolutionary, filmmaker renowned for his quest for perfectionism.

    The Other Side of Madness – Stanley Kubrick | Obsessed With Film 2010

  • The book's wit has glimmers of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow; its subtlety recalls James Joyce's "Dubliners."

    Kicking Back With A Book 2008

  • But if I choose to spit on a copy of the writings of Ayn Rand or Karl Marx or James Joyce, that is entirely my business.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The New Anti-Blasphemy Laws: 2007

  • So Eddie took this sublet from a very enticing Cubana woman, reminding him of calmer days in the tropics years ago, who was about to marry Eddie's mirror image, if Eddie had walked the straight and narrow and listened to his elders rather than his elder's teachers, such as James Joyce, Bernard Malmud, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

    Zelda's Lament: F. Scott and the Priest 2010

  • The playhouse became famous for producing plays by experimental and esoteric writers such as James Joyce and Sholem Asch. It also produced a number of plays that reflected the various ethnic backgrounds of people who lived in the area.

    Irene Lewisohn. 2009

  • Some of the stories are by literary giants such as James Joyce ( "The Dead," from 1914, about a haunting lost love), Robert Musil (his bleak, unforgettable 1924 novella, "Tonka," exploring love, disease and mystery) and Vladimir Nabokov ( "The Moon in Fialta," a 1936 story in which a married man's stolen kiss with a woman in the snow stays with him for the rest of his life).

    The Puzzle of Love 2008

  • And look how long censorship took in the the United States to loosen up with court case after courtcase, involving great literary works such as James Joyce's Ulysses, etc...

    East Asian, Popular Democracy, and Military Strategy Changes Michael Turton 2007

  • ‡ As the intellectual and cultural center of Ireland, Dublin was a stronghold of Irish nationalism, the birthplace of renewed interest in the Irish language and Irish literature, and home to writers such as James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, and William Butler Yeats.

    Dublin 2002

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