Author: Katherine Ebury File Type: pdf This book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyces non-fictional writings. Rather than simply proposing or applying new methodologies, it historicises and reconceives the critical assumptions that have shaped scholarly approaches to these works for over half a decade, showing that non-fiction as a categorical distinction, no matter how sensible it appears, crumbles under closer inspection. Bringing into conversation a group of key Joyce scholars, this volume acts not only as a vital reimagining of our critical relationship to Joyces non-fiction, but as a contribution to similar debates being carried out across the broad range of modernist studies. **Review Although regularly cited, Joyces non-fictional writings have usually been seen as occasional and secondary. This volume treats them comprehensively and synoptically for the first time and illuminatingly uncovers the variegated impulses motivating this work. Triumphantly, these essays prove the centrality of Joyces non-fiction to his artistic enterprise and firmly resituate it as part of, not ancillary to, his radical, modernist experimentation. (Professor Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin, Ireland) This book will change the way we read Joyces career as a writer of experimental prose. Ebury and Fraser have compiled an impressive line-up of contributions that unsettle critical notions tenaciously insisting on distinguishing between Joyces non-fiction and his fictional writing. Because it probes how scholars establish cultural hierarchies in the assessment of modernist writing this informative, wide-ranging and timely collection should be of interest to anyone working on Joyce today. (Professor Vike Martina Plock, University of Exeter, UK) With the publication of this book, it becomes impossible to lump Joyces writing into two discrete categories, fiction and non-fiction. The penetrating and original essays collected here by Fraser and Ebury complicate that relationship while demonstrating the value of paying serious attention to the various kinds of writing traditionally classified as non-fiction. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting a full picture of Joyces achievement. (Professor Derek Attridge, University of York, UK) From the Back Cover This book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyces non-fictional writings. Rather than simply proposing or applying new methodologies, it historicises and reconceives the critical assumptions that have shaped scholarly approaches to these works for over half a decade, showing that non-fiction as a categorical distinction, no matter how sensible it appears, crumbles under closer inspection. Bringing into conversation a group of key Joyce scholars, this volume acts not only as a vital reimagining of our critical relationship to Joyces non-fiction, but as a contribution to similar debates being carried out across the broad range of modernist studies.

Author: Christopher Simon Sykes File Type: epub Drawing on exclusive and unprecedented access to David Hockneys extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, interviews with family, friends, and on Hockney himself, Christopher Simon Sykes provides a colorful and intimate portrait of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Born in 1937, David Hockney grew up in a northern English town during the days of postwar austerity. By the time he was ten years old he knew he wanted to be an artist, and after leaving school he went on to study at Bradford Art College and later at the Royal College of Art in London. Bursting onto the scene at the Young Contemporaries exhibition, Hockney was quickly heralded as the golden boy of postwar British art and a leading proponent of pop art. It was during the swinging 60s in London that he befriended many of the seminal cultural figures of the generation and throughout these years Hockneys career grew. Always absorbed in his work, he drew, painted and etched for long hours each day, but it was a scholarship that led him to California, where he painted his iconic series of swimming pools. Since then, the most prestigious galleries across the world have devoted countless shows to his extraordinary work. In the seventies he expanded his range of projects, including set and costume design for operas and experiments with photography, lithography, and even photocopying. Most recently he has been at the forefront the art worlds digital revolution, producing incredible sketches on his iPhone and iPad, and it is this progressive thinking which has highlighted his genius, vigor and versatility as an artist approaching his 75th birthday. In this, the first volume of Hockneys biography, detailing his life and work from 1937 - 1975, Sykes explores the fascinating world of the beloved and controversial artist whose career has spanned and epitomized the art movements of the last five decades. The timing couldnt be better for this enjoyable and well-sourced book, which like Hockneys own work is both conversational and perceptive. Los Angeles Times To read Christopher Simon Sykes David Hockney is to marvel at the artistic gifts of the eccentric Yorkshireman who rose from a sometimes pinched childhood to hobnob with poet Stephen Spender and novelist Christopher Isherwood, to party with Mick Jagger and Manolo Blahnik. The Plain Dealer Prodigiously entertaining. Financial Times A chatty, knowledgeable, insiders biography, full of anecdotes. The Guardian **ReviewThe timing couldnt be better for this enjoyable and well-sourced book, which like Hockneys own work is both conversational and perceptive. Los Angeles Times An entertaining and intimate biography which leaves no aspect of the artists life unexplored. *Associated Press What Mr. Sykes does best in these pages is capture Mr. Hockneys almost preternatural love of making images, his passion for art, which dates to his earliest childhood ... Mr. Sykes offers some fascinating accounts of the evolution of certain well-known Hockney paintings and in doing so, traces the autobiographical impulses in Mr. Hockneys work, his peregrinations from London to Paris to Los Angeles, his frank embrace of homosexual themes and his relationships with family, friends and lovers. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times* Fluid, entertaining....Meticulously researched, Sykess account is a pleasure to read. The New Yorker To read Christopher Simon Sykes David Hockney is to marvel at the artistic gifts of the eccentric Yorkshireman who rose from a sometimes pinched childhood to hobnob with poet Stephen Spender and novelist Christopher Isherwood, to party with Mick Jagger and Manolo Blahnik. The Plain Dealer Sykes writing has a real raconteurial flair ... Along with Hockneys personal successes and travails, Sykes pays close attention to the art. He takes you inside Hockneys head, noting the artists dissatisfaction with even some of his most highly regarded paintings and recording Hockneys thoughts on such artistic challenges as painting water. *The Seattle Times Energetic, absorbing ... Sykes skillfully integrates Hockneys private history with his public, artistic life to provide unusual insight into both his emotional and professional life. Publishers Weekly* Intimate, vivid ... A personal, lively look at this extraordinary artists career. Readers will eagerly await the second volume. Kirkus Reviews Lively and lavishly detailed. . . . Sykes portrait knits Hockneys life and work together in perceptive and substantiated ways. Charismatic and funny, gregarious, inquisitive, phenomenally skilled and inventive, and forthright about his homosexuality, young Hockney embraced every opportunity to go somewhere new and try something different. And his prismatic, autobiographical, and provocative paintings, prints, and stage designs evolved accordingly during his sojourns in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris. Sykes profiles Hockneys mentors, friends, and loversa veritable whos who of the art world and high societyanalyzes his influences and innovations, and ends on a high note. Booklist Prodigiously entertaining. Financial Times A chatty, knowledgeable, insiders biography, full of anecdotes. The Guardian Christopher Simon Sykes is quick to blow away the cobwebs in his biography, the first of two volumes, pointing to Hockneys trailblazing status. This isan exhaustive and authoritative telling of the Hockney story. The Independent Certainly the most moving and amusing account of the most popular British artist of the 20th century. [David Hockney] bounces along as the rebellious, eccentric, funny artist discovers sex, then London, and so on to fame and fortune, via California. Sykes elicits marvellous background details and anecdotes The wit, energy and magical talent of Hockney to use whatever happens to him to his purpose and for humour are shown on almost every page. London Evening StandardAbout the Author CHRISTOPHER SIMON SYKES is a photographer and writer. He specializes in architectural and garden photography and writes on architecture and social history. Sykes worked with Eric Clapton on his autobiography, Clapton, and his work has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Town & Country, and Architectural Digest. He lives with his wife and daughter in North London.

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Author: Suze van Der Poll File Type: pdf This volume frames the concept of a national play.By analysing a number of European case studies, it addresses the following questionWhich play could be regarded as a countrys national play, and how does it represent its national identity? The chapters provide an in-depth look at plays in eight different countriesGermany (Die Rauber,Friedrich Schiller), Switzerland (Wilhelm Tell, Friedrich Schiller), Hungary (Bank Ban, Jozsef Katona), Sweden (Gustav Vasa,August Strindberg), Norway (Peer Gynt,Henrik Ibsen), the Netherlands (The Good Hope, Herman Heijermans), France (Tartuffe, Moliere), and Ireland. This collection is especially relevant at a time of socio-political flux, when national identity and the future of the nation state is being reconsidered. **From the Back Cover This volume frames the concept of a national play.By analysing a number of European case studies, it addresses the following questionWhich play could be regarded as a countrys national play, and how does it represent its national identity? The chapters provide an in-depth look at plays in eight different countriesGermany (Die Rauber,Friedrich Schiller), Switzerland (Wilhelm Tell, Friedrich Schiller), Hungary (Bank Ban, Jozsef Katona), Sweden (Gustav Vasa,August Strindberg), Norway (Peer Gynt,Henrik Ibsen), the Netherlands (The Good Hope, Herman Heijermans), France (Tartuffe, Moliere), and Ireland. This collection is especially relevant at a time of socio-political flux, when national identity and the future of the nation state is being reconsidered. About the Author Suze van der Poll is Assistant Professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Department of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has published on Henrik Ibsen and on contemporary Norwegian literature. She has recently published The Return of the Narrative the Call for the Novel(co-edited with Sabine van Wesemael, 2015). Rob van der Zalm is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.He has published extensively on Dutch theatre history, and written several biographies of Dutch directors and actors. He was affiliated with the Dutch Theatre Museum from 1994 until 2013, where he curated several exhibitions.