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PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674248392
ISBN-139780674248397
eBay Product ID (ePID)14072076580
Product Key Features
Book TitleEllmann's Joyce : the Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicLiterary, Historical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorZachary Leader
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight30.3 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2024-042498
Dewey Edition23/eng/20240923
ReviewsA fascinating account of the sleuthing, diplomacy, energy, patience, curiosity, luck and -- perhaps most of all -- the sheer unadorned time necessary to write a good biography...Perhaps it is a peculiar kind, but to read an expansive account of how scholarship is done, how new work builds on old work, and how one of the monumental biographies of the twentieth centuries came to be is...exhilarating., An ingeniously conceived and beautifully executed book by a preeminent literary biographer. It is compulsively readable as well as profoundly sympathetic, drawing a memorable portrait of a fascinating man and his intellectual milieu, and making an important statement about literary biography, its form, uses, and implications. A remarkable achievement., Zachary Leader's biography of Richard Ellmann uncovers the struggles and secrets of Ellmann's life with great empathy and inimitable panache. Objective and affectionate, gossipy and grand, this book is a great read., A biography of a biographer by a biographer is, for a biographer like myself, a welcome, exciting, and above all rare event. Though the story is hardly ever told, Zachary Leader knows that what goes into the making of a great biography is often as much of a story as the story itself. With Ellmann's Joyce , Leader shows how biographers think and work, and how their thinking and working shapes the posthumous destinies of those they write about., Takes readers on a dazzling intellectual tour...A singular achievement worthy of notice, both in its exploration of character and as a defense of the biographer's art., Zachary Leader's biography of Richard Ellmann uncovers the struggles and secrets of Ellman's life with great empathy and inimitable panache. Objective and affectionate, gossipy and grand, this book is a great read., The fullest account yet available of the writing of the great James Joyce biography.... more than just a biography. It is an exploration of the making of the very craft it exemplifies, a fascinating study of the creation of two legends: that of the writer with whom Ellmann's work deals and that of the biography itself., The British critic and scholar Christopher Ricks said of Ellmann's biography that it 'engages every aspect of Joyce's life and interests,' from the amatory to the political to the domestic...'Ellmann's Joyce' does the same for its likable subject., The way in which Ellmann's remarkable biography came into being is the subject of an unusual and eminently humane new book by Zachary Leader, himself a distinguished practitioner of the erudite yet highly readable doorstopper school of biography that Ellmann pioneered, via his lives of Kingsley Amis and Saul Bellow...[offers] a lucid account of what makes Ellmann such a consummate practitioner of an art of writing that, Leader clearly feels, does not always receive the respect that it deserves., I have always been grateful to Ellmann for taking such a democratizing approach to this most despotic of authors, just as I am now to Leader for following suit...what Zachary Leader gives us is a richly researched, nuanced portrait of the earlier life and working processes of a writer who not only shone light into one of the great literary minds of the twentieth century, but, in the process, became one in his own right., Leader is himself a distinguished biographer...[in this book] he offers an extended homage to a master in his field., A biography of a biographer by a biographer is, for a biographer like myself, a welcome, exciting, and above all rare event. Though the story is hardly ever told, Zachary Leader knows that what goes into the making of a great biography is often as much of a story as the story itself. With Ellmann's Joyce, Leader shows how biographers think and work, and how their thinking and working shapes the posthumous destinies of those they write about., Zachary Leader has given us the gift of explanation without simplification. This is a masterpiece of insight and dignified audacity, sure to immortalize its subject--the art of literary biography and one of its greatest practitioners, Richard Ellmann., [Leader] writes not only with great respect for the labour involved, but with a sense of its understated drama... makes a compelling case for the validity and critical value of the often maligned genre of literary biography., Leader's book, superbly written, is itself a marvel of the biographer's art. From start to finish I was pleasurably absorbed by the wealth of detail so deftly handled, and the sharp literary and cultural insights on display.
Dewey Decimal823/.912 B
SynopsisThe story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century--an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce's reputation. Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, published in 1959, was hailed by Anthony Burgess as "the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century." Frank Kermode thought the book would "fix Joyce's image for a generation," a prediction that was if anything too cautious. The biography won the National Book Award and durably secured Joyce's standing as a preeminent modernist. Ellmann's Joyce provides the biography of the biography, exploring how Ellmann came to his subject, gained the cooperation of Joyce's family and estate, shrewdly, doggedly collected vital papers and interviews, placated publishers, thwarted competitors, and carefully balanced narrative with literary analysis. Ellmann's Joyce also removes the veil from the biographer--richly rewarded in public, admirable in private life, but also possessed of a startling secret life. An eminent biographer himself, Zachary Leader constructs a powerful argument not only in support of Ellmann's intellectual and artistic claims but also on behalf of literary biography generally. In the process, he takes readers on a rare tour through midcentury publishing houses in New York and London, as well as the corridors and classrooms of elite universities, from Yale to Oxford. The influence of Ellmann's book, recognized instantly, persists to this day, among literary scholars and Joyce fans alike. Filled with surprising details, tales of intrigue from the heyday of literary publishing, and intimate portraits of the Joyce and Ellmann families, Ellmann's Joyce is as immersive as a walk around town with Leopold Bloom and as moving as the thickly drifted snow on Michael Furey's grave., Richard Ellmann's James Joyce , published in 1959, has been called "the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century." Ellmann's Joyce provides the biography of the biography--an eye-opening account of how Ellmann's book came to be, the intrigue surrounding it, and its enduring impact on the study and making of literary lives.
LC Classification NumberPR6019.O9Z533235
