Customer Reviews

Names and Naming in Joyce

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I have just finished reading Culleton's Names and Naming, and I found it to be both a valueable and interesting research tool. I can't wait to incorporate it into my Lit. classes!!

I liked this book very much. SO much Joyce criticism is dry and dull. Culleton's work displays a kind of scholarship and humor not found in much Joyce criticism. I would recommend this book highly. It not only theorizes Joyce's use of names but it teaches you valuable information on Joyce, on modern literature, on modernity.

I recommend this book. It is nicely written and well researched. I like the way the writer makes connections throughout her book. It is a very helpful text and enjoyable to read (in fact, hilarious at places). A very interesting topic.

Culleton does an outstanding job discussing and interpreting one of the past century's most difficult writers. I recommend this book wholeheartedly to anyone interested in Joyce and I give it five stars.

Culleton's book does much to advance the study of Joyce's work. By examining Joyce's brilliant use of names in his fiction and by identifying the implications of that attention on history, gender, and identity, Culleton comprehensively details what onomastic amateurs have only noticed in passing. What's most exciting about this book, though, is its engaging style, its wit, and Culleton's panache. I recommend this work to Joyceans, to instructors who teach Joyce at the undergraduate level in survey courses, and to anyone interested in names and their considerable weight.

This book provides good information on Joyce and on his use of names. People who've been interested in names throughout their life will find this book useful, funny and informative. I think it's definitely worth taking a look at. *****

Joyce is brilliant but this book is not. A difficult, monotonous read

Factual but dry, I found the book as exhilarating as reading the dictionary. As a long time Joyce fan, I did not appreciate the mundane, trivial nature of the work. Thumbs down big time.

I'm a secondary level English teacher and wanted to incorporate Irish writers into my class discussion. I did not find this book to be suitable for teaching Joyce because it was vague and inaccessible for readers.

See my review for the paperback version. I was severly disappointed with the lack of information. I have studied Joyce in Dublin and at NYC and wish an author would write a comprehensive work on this incredible and talented writer.