Ira Nadel
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American writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ira Bruce Nadel is an American-Canadian biographer, literary critic and James Joyce scholar, and a distinguished professor at the University of British Columbia. He has written books on the twentieth-century Modernists, especially Ezra Pound and Joyce, biographies of Leonard Cohen and Leon Uris, and on Jewish-American authors. He has won Canadian literary awards, and has edited and written the introduction to a number of scholarly books and period pieces. He is a critic of the Olympic torch relay as a legacy of the Nazis.
Ira Nadel's Published Works
Published Works
- Biography: Fiction, Fact, and Form (1984) (94)
- Double act : a life of Tom Stoppard (2004) (51)
- The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound (1999) (51)
- Trees in the City (1977) (48)
- Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination (1986) (38)
- Gertrude Stein and the Making of Literature (1988) (27)
- Joyce and the Jews: Culture and Texts (1989) (25)
- Textual Criticism, Literary Theory, and the New "Ulysses"@@@Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition (1987) (23)
- Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre (review) (2012) (21)
- Early writings : poems and prose (2005) (20)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound (2007) (17)
- Pound as translator (1999) (16)
- JOYCE AND THE JEWS (1986) (14)
- A Theme in the Early Work of Arthur Machen: "Degeneration" (2010) (12)
- The Letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson (1993) (11)
- Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen (1996) (10)
- Victorian biography : a collection of essays from the period (1986) (10)
- Early poetry 1908-1920 (1999) (9)
- "The Mansion of Bliss," or the Place of Play in Victorian Life and Literature (2009) (8)
- Ezra Pound in Context (2015) (8)
- Victorian artists and the city : a collection of critical essays (1980) (6)
- Late Cantos LXXII-CXVII (1999) (6)
- The Fate of Sex: Late Style and “The Chaos of Eros” (2013) (6)
- A Voyage to Cochin China (2009) (5)
- Pound and antisemitism (1999) (5)
- Tom Stoppard and the Invention of Biography (2000) (5)
- Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art (1994) (4)
- Critical Companion to Philip Roth: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work (2011) (4)
- Moments in the Greenwood: Maurice in Context (1982) (4)
- David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre (2008) (4)
- Modernism's Second Act (2013) (3)
- Philip Roth (2021) (3)
- Experiment in Biography (1984) (3)
- Victorian novelists before 1885 (1983) (3)
- Pound and music (1999) (3)
- Caterpillars of the Commonwealth Unite (2014) (3)
- Pound and the making of modernism (1999) (3)
- Ezra Pound: A Literary Life (2004) (3)
- Literary Justice vs. Justice in Literature (2018) (3)
- George Orwell: A Reassessment (1988) (3)
- Redefining the modern : essays on literature and society in honor of Joseph Wiesenfarth (2004) (3)
- Wonderful Deception': Art and the Artist in "Little Dorrit" (1977) (3)
- The "Ulysses" Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit by Cecilia Konchar Farr (review) (2018) (3)
- Pound's politics and economics (1999) (3)
- Pound as critic (1999) (2)
- Introduction Understanding Pound (1999) (2)
- Joyce and Blackmail (1998) (2)
- Writing Tom Stoppard (2004) (2)
- 'London in the Quick': Blanchard Jerrold and the Text of London: A Pilgrimage (1976) (2)
- The texts of The Cantos (1999) (2)
- Autobiography as Fiction: The Example of Pater's Marius (2010) (2)
- Tom Stoppard: In the Russian Court (2004) (2)
- Pound and the visual arts (1999) (2)
- Stoppard and film (2001) (2)
- Travesties: Tom Stoppard’s Joyce and Other Dadaist Fantasies, Or History in a Hat (2009) (2)
- Victorian poets before 1850 (1984) (2)
- Strachey's “subtler strategy”: Metaphor in Eminent Victorians (1981) (2)
- Tom Stoppard: A Life (2002) (2)
- Beatrice Webb’s Two Voices: My Apprenticeship and Victorian Autobiography (1976) (1)
- Pound after Pisa: 1945–1972 (2010) (1)
- City of Fact (2008) (1)
- Oriental Woolf (2016) (1)
- Narrative and the Popularity of Biography in Data and Acta : Aspects of Life-Writing. (1987) (1)
- Boxing with Brecht: David Mamet and Bertolt Brecht (2012) (1)
- E.J. Pratt: The Truant Years, 1882–1927 by David G. Pitt (review) (2014) (1)
- The ‘Cunning Pattern of Excelling Nature’: Shakespeare and the Literary Application of DISCAN (1990) (1)
- At the End: Bowie, Reed, and Cohen (2021) (1)
- Aquatic Roth (2018) (1)
- Victorian fiction : a collection of essays from the period (1986) (1)
- Victorian novelists after 1885 (1983) (1)
- Beckett, Proust, and the Darkroom (2017) (1)
- Pound before Pisa: 1920–1945 (2010) (1)
- Autobiography and Literary Essays by John Stuart Mill (review) (2014) (1)
- Rapallo and Rome (2010) (1)
- Joyce and the Family of Emile and Yva Fernandez : Solving a Minor Mystery (1987) (1)
- Book of Games (2008) (1)
- Smackdown! Roth vs. Mailer (2021) (1)
- White Rain: 9/11 and American Fiction (2015) (1)
- George Eliot and her Biographers (1982) (1)
- "Unriddling the Writing": The Letters of James Joyce. Volume I (2012) (1)
- The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction (2015) (1)
- Apologize or Confess! The Dilemma of Victorian Autobiography (1982) (1)
- What to Do with Kafka, or Where’s My Prize? (2015) (1)
- Gertrude Stein and Henry James (1988) (1)
- Humanities (2015) (0)
- Fingerprint or Photograph? The Fiction of Biographical Facts (2014) (0)
- Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History. William Baker , John C. Ross (2007) (0)
- Odd Fellows: Hannah Arendt and Philip Roth (2018) (0)
- Tom Stoppard, A Life by Hermione Lee (review) (2021) (0)
- Joyce and Jewish Typology (1989) (0)
- Reading Joyce (review) (2010) (0)
- WELLS AND GORKY (2019) (0)
- Jewish writers of North America : a guide to information sources (1985) (0)
- The Early Years (2021) (0)
- DESIGNING A CITY STREET—MODELS, PROBLEMS AND MATRIXES (1977) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Edited By William Baker and William M. Clarke.THE LETTERS OF WILKIE COLLINS: VOLUME ONE, 1838-1865. London: Macmillan, 1999. and Edited By William Baker and William M. Clarke.THE LETTERS OF WILKIE COLLINS: VOLUME TWO, 1874-1881. London: Macmillan, 1999. (2001) (0)
- ‘The European Mind Stops’: Drafts, Fragments and Silences, 1958–72 (2004) (0)
- Conrad, Arendt, and the "Banality of Evil" (2020) (0)
- American Roth (2019) (0)
- The Incomplete Joyce (2012) (0)
- “Walked Out on the Platinum!,” or New York, New York (2021) (0)
- TREES, MAN AND THE CITY—THE ENVIRONMENTAL RELATION (1977) (0)
- Pound’s Modern (Metrical) Education (2021) (0)
- Leonard Cohen: "The only tourist in Havana" (1996) (0)
- The alternate vision : renunciation in the novels of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy (1970) (0)
- Abbreviations (2016) (0)
- The Smallest Genius and "The Wittiest Mind": Max Beerbohm and Lytton Strachey (2010) (0)
- Vidal, Gore (3 Oct. 1925–31 July 2012), novelist, essayist, screenwriter, journalist, and cultural provocateur (2018) (0)
- THACKERAY AND CLOUGH (2016) (0)
- The Lives of Pound (2010) (0)
- [Substance abuse and pregnancy: narcotics--selected problems]. (1997) (0)
- I Married a Communist: The Book! The Movie! The Commie Threat! (2020) (0)
- Biography as an Institution (1984) (0)
- Versions of the Life: George Eliot and her Biographers (1984) (0)
- The Joycean Exodus (1989) (0)
- James and John Stuart Mill / Papers of the Centenary Conference ed. by John M. Robson, Michael Laine (review) (2015) (0)
- Sexual and Other Perversities: David Mamet and Contemporary Chicago Theater (2021) (0)
- A Biography on Butler (2010) (0)
- Updike by Adam Begley (review) (2015) (0)
- Picturing poets and eying Pound (2004) (0)
- Middle Cantos XLII-LXXI (1999) (0)
- Father and Daughter: Leslie Stephen and Virginia Woolf (2016) (0)
- When the Time Came (1988) (0)
- Edel and Biography (2010) (0)
- The Russian Woolf (2018) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound: Preface (2007) (0)
- Biography and Theory: Steps towards a Poetics (1984) (0)
- TREES IN THE CITY — A SHORT HISTORY (1977) (0)
- Introduction: The History of My Discontent (2021) (0)
- Ruskin's ‘Biped’ Truth (2014) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound: Context (2007) (0)
- The Art of Literary Biography. John Batchelor (1998) (0)
- 10. W.E.F: Question Marks, Exclamation Points, and Asterisks (2003) (0)
- Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, eds. Hacking the Academy, New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities (2014) (0)
- The Study of Autobiography (2010) (0)
- A Jew in the Nineties (2008) (0)
- Travels with Kafka (2021) (0)
- Thinking in Straight Lines (2021) (0)
- G. W. Cooke and Laurence Oliphant: Victorian Travellers to the Orient (1974) (0)
- The Letters of Wilkie Collins: Volume One, 1838-1865, and: The Letters of Wilkie Collins: Volume Two, 1874-1881 (review) (2001) (0)
- "CIRCE": TEXTUAL METHOD AND TEXTUAL MEANING (2016) (0)
- Beckett’s fizzles: De-creating the short story (2019) (0)
- Copyright, Empire and the Politics of Print: The Case of Canada (2015) (0)
- Pound before Paris: 1908–1920 (2010) (0)
- Joyce’s Jewish Cities (1989) (0)
- Ezra Pound’s Global Poetics (2019) (0)
- Coda: “It’s a Miserable Life” (2021) (0)
- Gender and sexuality (2010) (0)
- Portnoy: “Let It Rip” (2021) (0)
- South of the Northeast Kingdom (2008) (0)
- The Life of Saul Bellow, To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 by Zachary Leader (review) (2016) (0)
- Empson on Biography (2010) (0)
- Jewish Wheaties (2021) (0)
- Philip Roth: Face to Face (2019) (0)
- American Roth (2019) (0)
- What We Talk about When We Talk about Joyce, Now@@@Reauthorizing Joyce@@@Paperspace: Style as Ideology in Joyce's "Ulysses"@@@Joyce and the Jews: Culture and Texts (1990) (0)
- The History of Birobidzhan (2023) (0)
- Froude's Life of Carlyle (review) (1981) (0)
- 'The Real History of the ERA': Joyce, Lewis and Fascism (1988) (0)
- TREES, MAN AND THE CITY—THE AESTHETIC RELATION (1977) (0)
- Introduction: ‘Aleph, Alpha’ (1989) (0)
- Apollinaire/ Stein/ Picasso (2015) (0)
- Biography (2020) (0)
- Reflections on Biography (review) (2000) (0)
- The Tolstoy of the Zulus (2019) (0)
- Supercarnal Productions (2021) (0)
- Literary Modernism and Beyond: The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text (review) (2012) (0)
- ‘Bring Order to Your Surroundings’: 1920–29 (2004) (0)
- Pierre Boulle: Singapore, Conrad & Spies (2021) (0)
- [Substance abuse and pregnancy: alcohol]. (1996) (0)
- South Side Gypsy (2008) (0)
- Mansfield, Movement and the Ballets Russes (2017) (0)
- Russian Literature and Culture (2021) (0)
- Trollope as biographer (1982) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound: Critical reception (2007) (0)
- The Bloomsbury Short Story (2017) (0)
- Quintet, or The Jersey Style (2021) (0)
- Abbreviations (2005) (0)
- Pound, women and gender (1999) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound: Guide to further reading (2007) (0)
- O Taste and See, Food Poems:O Taste and See, Food Poems (2005) (0)
- Review (2011) (0)
- “Psychoanalysis and Laxatives,” or Democracy in America (2021) (0)
- Publishing and publishers (2010) (0)
- Ioláni, or, Tahíti as it was (1999) (0)
- Biography & Four Master Tropes (2010) (0)
- Joyce and the Idea of the Jew (1989) (0)
- LITERATURE AND ARTS. TWENTIETH CENTURY (2020) (0)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume XVIII: Victorian Novelists after 1885@@@Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume XXI: Victorian Novelists before 1885 (1987) (0)
- From Fathers and Sons to Sons and Lovers (1979) (0)
- ‘The Indifferent Never Make History’: 1930–40 (2004) (0)
- ‘Nothin’ Undecided’: Rome, Pisa, Washington, 1940–58 (2004) (0)
- Declaration of Independence (2021) (0)
- The Bloomsbury Short Story (2017) (0)
- Wilkie Collins' Beached Tale (2000) (0)
- Editors' Fence (2010) (0)
- Biography as a Profession (1984) (0)
- Editor's Fence (2010) (0)
- Soldier of Fortune (2008) (0)
- Three by Gertrude Stein (1988) (0)
- Conclusion: ‘The Greatest Jew of All’ (1989) (0)
- Introduction (2021) (0)
- Maugham and Woolf in Russia: Ashenden & Orlando (2020) (0)
- Textual Criticism and Non-Fictional Prose: The Case of Matthew Arnold (2014) (0)
- Biography : Life after Death (2020) (0)
- The American Way (2008) (0)
- ‘The Noble Crested Screamer’: 1914–20 (2004) (0)
- Bloomsday 2012 at Croton Falls: A Review of "Our First Ever Bloomsday Celebration," 16 June 2012, The Schoolhouse Theater, Croton Falls, New York (2012) (0)
- Coda: Making Sense of Modernism or the Bomb (2013) (0)
- Jersey Boys: Philip Roth & Bruce Springsteen From American Pastoral to Born to Run (2019) (0)
- Newark, Newark, Newark (2021) (0)
- ‘Mastership at One Leap’: 1885–1908 (2004) (0)
- Beckett’s Holocaust (2020) (0)
- Beyond The Cantos (1999) (0)
- The Russian Roth (2022) (0)
- Review: A Tale of Two Bridges: The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridges of 1936 and 2013 by Stephen D. Mikesell (2017) (0)
- Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives by John Sutherland’s (review) (2013) (0)
- Writers as Biographers (1984) (0)
- Ashbery, John Lawrence (28 July 1927–3 Sept. 2017), poet, translator and art critic (2020) (0)
- An Education in Intensity (2021) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound: Life (2007) (0)
- Joyce, Jews and History (1989) (0)
- Victorian poets after 1850 (1985) (0)
- ‘My Music is Your Disharmony’: 1908–14 (2004) (0)
- Art and Occupation (2013) (0)
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