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Everyman's Joyce ReviewW. Terrence Gordon quotes Anthony Burgess in the title above, a sample of the bit of ingenuity and cleverness that fill this very successful gallop through the writing of James Joyce based on the fact that Joyce's fascinating works - from 'The Dubliners' and 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' through 'Ulysses', 'Exiles', and 'Pomes Penyeach' to 'Finnegan's Wake' - can best be appreciated completely with the random art and photographs that create the matrix for this art book designed by Eri Hamaji and Jacob Albert. Influences on the development of Joyce's style are explored with special credit given to Joyce's mentor such as Charles Kay Ogden who as the first to claim 'language as a tool for the penetration of the unconscious'.
Even for the many who have delighted in the more accessible works such as 'Portrait...' and have spent countless hours adapting to the challenges of 'Finnegan's Wake' this book will illuminate the genius' output in a way that is purely visual in concept. As in most books published by Mark Batty Publisher the design element is an important part of the message transmitted. W. Terrence Gordon writes well and has obviously done extensive research into the writings and life of James Joyce, but he also has the courage to make some bold visual statements about the master's output. Every page is an art element that either opens the window on the more obtuse passages of Joyce or offers a symbolic tribute, tongue in cheek style, to what many readers have found to be incomprehensible writing so closely attached to Joyce's last epic.
This is a book for lovers of the English language, for those who are obsessed with understanding every word written by James Joyce, and for those who can think creatively about the visualization of what the man was thinking as he composed. It is an art book, a terrific study in design, and a thoroughly entertaining read! Grady Harp, September 09Everyman's Joyce Overview"Pablo Picasso dismissed James Joyce as an obscure writer that all the world can understand."Through the power of illustration the Everyman's Series illuminates complex bodies of work by some of the 20th century's most vital thinkers. Picasso's assessment of James Joyce as a writer that "all the world can understand" speaks to how a perspective that favors the visual can see through dense texts, allowing meaning to take shape.W. Terrence Gordon's examination of the James Joyce canon and its impact on the world, both in terms of literature and culture at large, provides accessible and singular evaluations of why Joyce, no matter how impenetrable his books may seem on the surface, continues to attract readers today. In Everyman's Joyce, Gordon's close readings and biographical insight gel with contemporary visual cues that usher Joyce into the 21st century.

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