{"product_id":"2026200011470-secondhand-joyce","title":"Joyce","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew literary figures have reshaped the English language with such seismic force as James Joyce, and John Gross's critical study Joyce cuts straight to the heart of why this Dublin-born writer remains one of the most discussed and debated authors of the twentieth century. Part of the prestigious Fontana Modern Masters series — edited by Frank Kermode and designed to make serious literary and intellectual thought accessible to a broad readership — this compact yet penetrating volume presents a rigorous examination of Joyce's life, his artistic development, and the audacious formal experiments that produced works like Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake.\n\nGross writes with clarity and critical authority, tracing Joyce's evolution from a Catholic Dublin schoolboy into the self-exiled architect of literary modernism, illuminating the obsessions with language, identity, Irish history, and myth that animate every page of his fiction. The Fontana Modern Masters format lends itself perfectly to this kind of intellectual biography, offering dense ideas in an approachable register without sacrificing depth or rigour. For anyone seeking an entry point into the bewildering brilliance of Joyce's world, or a fresh critical lens through which to re-examine it, this volume poses the essential question: can any reader ever truly exhaust what Joyce put on the page?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130845700315,"sku":"2026200011470-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b669bebc-ad9b-4a18-842c-c8dfd6313522.png?v=1786591137","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011470-secondhand-joyce","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}