James Joyce and Education: Schooling and the Social Imaginary in the Modernist Novel by Len Platt (review)

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1 Agatha Christie, Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1975). 2 See Jeremy Lybarger, “Reopening the Case Files of Leopold and Loeb,” The Paris Review (26 July 2018), . The wellknown case concerned two young men from affluent families, Nathan F. Leopold Jr. and Richard A. Loeb, who confessed to and were tried and convicted in the kidnapping and murder of fourteen-year-old Robert (“Bobby”) Franks for an “intellectual” thrill. 3 W. B. Yeats is quoted in R. F. Foster’s W. B. Yeats: A Life, II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939 (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003), p. 46. 4 See James Joyce, “Ulysses”: The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler et al. (New York: Vintage Books, 1986), 17.801-28. 5 Richard Wright, Native Son. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940).