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James Joyce
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Product details
- ISBN 9781399500692
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Investigates how the cinematic tendency of Joyce's writing developed from media predating film In this book, Keith Williams explores Victorian culture's emergent 'cinematicity' as a key creative driver of Joyce's experimental fiction, showing how Joyce's style and themes share the cinematograph's roots in Victorian optical entertainment and science. The book reveals Joyce's references to optical toys, shadowgraphs, magic lanterns, panoramas, photographic analysis and film peepshows. Close analyses of his works show how his techniques elaborated and critiqued their effects on modernity's 'media-cultural imaginary'.
Keith Williams is Reader in English Literature at the University of Dundee, Scotland. His most recent monograph is James Joyce and Cinematicity: Before and After Film (2020), which received excellent reviews in leading periodicals, including The James Joyce Quarterly, James Joyce Broadsheet, James Joyce Literary Supplement, Irish Studies Review and Dublin Review of Books.
He has researched and published widely on interactions between modern literature and technological media, including H.G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies (Liverpool University Press, 2007), as well as supervising PhD projects in the area.
He also engages in creative collaborations with professional magic lanternists, musicians and vocalists, showcasing relations between writers and early moving image media, including Joyce.
Dr Williams currently leads a project to recover the work of a late 19th century Scottish science fiction pioneer who imagined many new media and their global impacts. The first critical selection from this (edited with Ari Brin) is The Essential Robert Duncan Milne: Stories by the Lost Pioneer of Transatlantic Science Fiction (2025).
