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Book SynopsisJames Joyce, an iconic figure within Irish, British, European and American cultures, is growing in importance in more widely global cultural contexts as well. Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and, above all, Ulysses hold an unassailable place within the canon of twentieth-century modernist literature.
Trade Review“Essays offering new riffs and revisions stand out--Vicki Mahaffey on Dubliners, Finn Fordham on Finnegans Wake, Declan Kiberd on the Odyssey, Rabaté on French theory, and Daniel Ferrer on genetic criticism--and one welcomes the contributions of newer scholars, e.g., Katherine Mullin. Recommended.” (
Choice, November 2008)
"A diverse collection … A fascinating discussion of Joyce." (James Joyce Broadsheet, October 2008)
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
List of Abbreviations and Editions Used xvii
1 Introduction: Re-readings, Relocations, and Receptions 1
Richard Brown
Part I Re-reading Texts 17
2 Dubliners: Surprised by Chance 19
Vicki Mahaffey
3 Desire, Freedom, and Confessional Culture in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 34
John Paul Riquelme
4 Ulysses: The Epic of the Human Body 54
Maud Ellmann
5 Finnegans Wake: Novel and Anti-novel 71
Finn Fordham
Part II Contexts and Locations 91
6 European Joyce 93
Geert Lernout
7 "In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis"? Joyce's Reception in Ireland, 1900–1940 108
John Nash
8 His città immediata: Joyce’s Triestine Home from Home 123
John McCourt
9 James Joyce and German Literature, or Refl ections on the Vagaries and Vacancies of Reception Studies 137
Robert K. Weninger
10 Molly's Gibraltar: The Other Location in Joyce's Ulysses 157
Richard Brown
11 Joyce and Postcolonial Theory: Analytic and Tropical Modes 174
Mark Wollaeger
12 "United States of Asia": James Joyce and Japan 193
Eishiro Ito
13 Where Agni Arafl ammed and Shiva Slew: Joyce's Interface with India 207
Krishna Sen
14 Joyce and New Zealand: Biography, Censorship, and Infl uence 223
David G. Wright
Part III Approaches and Receptions 239
15 Joyce's Homer, Homer's Joyce 241
Declan Kiberd
16 The Joyce of French Theory 254
Jean-Michel Rabaté
17 Joyce, Music, and Popular Culture 270
R. Brandon Kershner
18 The Joyce of Manuscripts 286
Daniel Ferrer
19 Joyce's Bridge to Late Twentieth-Century British Theater: Harold Pinter's Dialogue with Exiles 300
Mark Taylor-Batty
20 The Joyce Effect: Joyce in Visual Art 318
Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
21 "In his secondmouth language": Joyce and Irish Poetry 341
Derval Tubridy
22 "Ghostly Light": Spectres of Modernity in James Joyce's and John Huston's "The Dead" 359
Luke Gibbons
23 Joyce through the Little Magazines 374
Katherine Mullin
24 Joyce and Radio 390
Jane Lewty
25 Scotographia: Joyce and Psychoanalysis 407
Luke Thurston
Index 427
