James Joyce's Women

James Joyce's Women
1985-09-13
88
Released

Overview

In this tribute to James Joyce, Fionnula Flanagan gives a tour-de-force performance as a half-dozen or so women in Joyce's real and fictional worlds. When she portrays his wife Nora remembering their time together, Flanagan captures the era and the author in lyrical detail. As Sylvia Beach, the woman who first published Ulysses, new dimensions concerning the importance of Nora in Joyce's literary visions of women emerge, and when Flanagan interprets Joyce characters like Molly Bloom or a washerwoman from Finnegan's Wake, the beauty of Joyce's language shines through the melodious words.



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Fionnula Flanagan

Fionnula Flanag

Harriet Shaw Weaver
Chris O'Neill

Chris O'Neill

James Joyce
James E. O'Grady

James E. O'Grad

The Interviewer
Tony Lyons

Tony Lyons

Leopold Bloom
Paddy Dawson

Paddy Dawson

Stannie Joyce

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