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Zachary Leader "Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker"
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Zachary Leader chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
Richard Ellmann’s biography of the novelist James Joyce is considered the greatest literary biography of the 20th century.
Why Zachary Leader was inspired to craft Ellmann’s Joyce.
Why Ellmann’s Joyce is structured in two sections: a chronological life of Richard Ellmann followed by a thematic ‘making of James Joyce’s biography’ section.
Why Zachary opened the narrative with a…
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