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The World of James Joyce

The authoritative documentary on the man who single-handedly transformed English literature in the 20th century. Produced by Ireland's National Television with the assistance of Richard Ellmann, the program was shot in Joyce’s tracks in Dublin, Trieste, Zurich, Rome, London, and Paris; it draws on the reminiscences of numerous associates, friends, and relatives, and shows the role in Joyce’s development of such figures as Harriet Weaver and Sylvia Beach. (116 minutes)



 
    

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A Prologue to Chaucer
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A scholarly program that reaches out to students of The Canterbury Tales to relate its characters and themes to everyday life in late-14th-century England. Period art of exceptional richness is combined with location photography that retraces the Apr...(more details)
 
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Ernest Hemingway: Grace Under Pressure

This is the only major documentary biography of the man who single-handedly forged the modern novel. It shows the relationship between Hemingway's life and works and evaluates both. Containing old photographs, newsreel footage, and clips from the big...(more details)
 
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Joyce, Yeats, and Wilde
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Seamus Heaney, one of the finest poets writing in the English language, and the late Richard Ellmann, biographer of Joyce and Wilde, and critic of Yeats, in literary dialogue about these three brilliant Dublin writers. The literary dialogue between H...(more details)
 
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James Joyce: "A Painful Case"

The impossibility of a pure relationship and the "soul's incurable loneliness" are the major themes of this short story, perhaps the most widely read of Joyce's Dubliners. The story of the chance meeting of a bank clerk and a sea captain's wife, thou...(more details)
 
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D.H. Lawrence as Son and Lover
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Lawrence's letters, essays, and autobiographical sketches provide the sound track of this biography of the man who is arguably the greatest and certainly the most controversial English novelist of our century, while the artifacts and scenes of his li...(more details)
 
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