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‘Diseases of the Ox’

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James Joyce

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In the Portrait of the Artist Joyce writes of‘Stephen pointing to the title page of Cranly’s book on which was written “Diseases of the Ox”. ’This apparently trivial incident affords much material for rumination. Here is the story.

Extracted from Silent Years: An Autobiography with Memoirs of James Joyce and our Ireland (New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953) pp. 58–9, 61, 63–4.

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Byrne, J.F. (1990). ‘Diseases of the Ox’. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) James Joyce. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09422-6_5

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