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The 50 pages that link to James Joyce, each with the reason it gives.

• ModernismRelated: His linguistic and narrative experiments expanded modernist fiction’s formal range.

• Virginia WoolfCompared with: His modernist experiments invite comparison with Woolf’s distinct handling of thought and everyday life.

• Leo TolstoyRelated: Joyce named Tolstoy among the few writers whose work could be considered great.

• Literary modernismRelated: His linguistic and structural experiments pushed the modernist novel toward radical complexity.

• OdysseyRelated: Joyce’s Ulysses recasts the Odyssey’s structure and wanderings in modern Dublin.

• Short storyRelated: Dubliners demonstrates how linked stories can form a portrait of a community.

• Ezra PoundRelated: Pound championed Joyce’s writing and helped secure publication and financial support for him.

• DublinRelated: His writing made Dublin’s streets, speech, and social life central to modern literature.

• Interior monologueRelated: Joyce made interior monologue central to the structure and style of Ulysses.

• English literatureRelated: His formal innovations expanded the possibilities of twentieth-century English-language fiction.

• Samuel BeckettRelated: Beckett worked in Joyce’s Paris circle, absorbing and later differentiating himself from its encyclopedic ambition.

• William FaulknerRelated: Joyce’s modernist experimentation offers a useful literary context for Faulkner’s narrative forms.

• W. B. YeatsCompared with: Joyce offers a contrasting modernist response to Irish identity and literary tradition.

• Vladimir NabokovRelated: Joyce’s intricate prose offered a major point of comparison for Nabokov’s own formal play.

• UlyssesRelated: Joyce wrote the novel and shaped its formal experiments.

• Irish literatureRelated: His formal innovations made Dublin a central setting of literary modernism.

• D. H. LawrenceCompared with: Joyce’s formal and linguistic innovations contrast with Lawrence’s pursuit of emotional and bodily expression.

• United States v. One Book Called UlyssesRelated: The case concerned the publication and importation of his novel.

• DublinersNarrower topic: Joyce wrote the collection and shaped its stories through close attention to Dublin speech and daily life.

• Literary biographyBroader topic: His life and writing have been closely connected through extensive documentary scholarship.

• European modernismRelated: His work pushed modernist prose toward dense allusion and radical formal play.

• Paris in the 1920sRelated: Paris offered Joyce publishers and supporters during the years surrounding Ulysses’s publication.

• TriesteRelated: The city shaped his writing and was where he developed parts of his major works.

• Patrick WhiteRelated: Joyce’s formal innovations belong to the modernist tradition White engaged with.

• Short story cycleRelated: Dubliners demonstrates how story order can shape a book’s larger design.

• Giambattista VicoRelated: Joyce’s Finnegans Wake adapts Vico’s cycles of historical recurrence as a literary structure.

• Hermann BrochRelated: Broch admired Joyce’s formal innovations and engaged with the possibilities of the modernist novel.

• The Satanic VersesRelated: Joyce’s linguistic experimentation and city-centered storytelling provide a literary point of comparison.

• Wyndham LewisCompared with: Lewis’s attacks on Joyce make their rival approaches to modernist fiction especially revealing.

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManNarrower topic: The novel transforms Joyce’s experiences and artistic concerns into Stephen’s fictional development.

• Anthony BurgessRelated: Burgess’s criticism and fiction show a sustained engagement with Joyce’s inventive use of language.

• R. K. NarayanCompared with: Joyce’s formal experimentation contrasts with Narayan’s clear, understated storytelling.

• Thomas MertonRelated: Joyce’s writing was among the literary influences Merton encountered before his conversion.

• Umberto EcoRelated: Eco wrote influential criticism on Joyce and admired his linguistic experimentation.

• Cormac McCarthyRelated: McCarthy admired Joyce, whose influence helps explain his interest in ambitious literary form.

• Djuna BarnesRelated: Barnes admired Joyce and sought his support for Nightwood, which he praised.

• Finnegans WakeNarrower topic: Joyce composed the novel over seventeen years, reshaping its language and structure.

• Gunnar EkelöfRelated: Joyce’s experiments with language and consciousness belong to the modernist context Ekelöf encountered.

• Laurence SterneRelated: Joyce’s formal experiments belong to a later history often connected with Sterne’s innovations.

• W. Somerset MaughamCompared with: Joyce’s formal experimentation sharply contrasts with Maugham’s direct narrative style.

• Colm TóibínRelated: Tóibín’s writing about Irish life takes place in a literary tradition shaped by Joyce.

• Irish peopleRelated: His writing made Dublin and Irish life central to modernist literature.

• Italo SvevoRelated: Joyce taught Svevo English in Trieste and later championed his fiction.

• John BanvilleRelated: Joyce’s formal ambition forms part of the Irish literary tradition Banville inherits and revises.

• Edna O'BrienRelated: Joyce’s literary reputation forms part of the Irish modernist inheritance O’Brien encountered.

• Roddy DoyleRelated: Joyce offers an earlier, formally different portrait of Dublin against which Doyle’s fiction is often read.

• Zeno's ConscienceRelated: Joyce encouraged Svevo’s writing and helped bring the novel to wider attention.

• Caresse CrosbyRelated: The Black Sun Press published a limited edition of Joyce’s Tales Told of Shem and Shaun.

• Flann O'BrienCompared with: O’Brien’s parodies engage with Joyce’s prestige while resisting solemn reverence for literary modernism.

• The Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyRelated: Joyce’s formally adventurous fiction belongs to a later tradition often linked to Sterne.