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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Ellmann’s Joyce: Zachary Leader in Conversation 
 with Hermione Lee - Zachary Leader (University of Roehampton)\, Hermione L
 ee (Biographer)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251111T173000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Richard Ellmann’s _James Joyce_\, published in 1959\, was ha
 iled by Anthony Burgess as ‘the greatest literary biography of the twent
 ieth century’. Frank Kermode thought the book would ‘fix Joyce’s ima
 ge for a generation’\, a prediction that was\, if anything\, too cautiou
 s. The biography won the National Book Award and durably secured Joyce’s
  standing as a pre-eminent modernist.\n\n*Zachary Leader* will discuss his
  new book\, _Ellmann’s Joyce_\, in conversation with *Hermione Lee*. The
  book offers a ‘biography of a biography’\, tracing how Richard Ellman
 n came to Joyce\, secured the cooperation of the family and estate\, assem
 bled papers and interviews\, managed publishers\, thwarted competitors\, a
 nd balanced narrative with literary analysis. Leader also examines the bio
 grapher himself—publicly celebrated and privately admirable\, yet with a
  startling secret life—and sets out a broader case for Ellmann’s intel
 lectual and artistic claims\, and for the value of literary biography more
  generally.\nSpeakers:\nZachary Leader (University of Roehampton)\, Hermio
 ne Lee (Biographer)
LOCATION:Wolfson College (Leonard Wolfson Auditorium)\, Linton Road OX2 6U
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