Ellmann's Joyce, The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker: The Letter between Literature and Cinema.

What motivated Richard Ellmann to write his biography of James Joyce, long established as a masterwork of twentieth century biography, exceeding in importance such stellar texts as Leon Edel's Henry James: A Life or George D. Painter's Marcel Proust? Zachary Leader explains why in his archive-center...

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Published in:	Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 196 - 202
Main Authors:	Nadel, Ira, Chattopadhyay, Arka, Holman, Matthew
Format:	Book Review
Published:	Indiana University Press Spring2026
Subjects:	Joyce, James, 1882-1941 Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 Psychoanalytic theory Biographers Biography (Literary form)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost