A Companion to James Joyce

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Content: Contents -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations and Editions Used -- 1 Introduction: Re-readings, Relocations, and Receptions -- Re-reading Texts -- Joycean Geographies: Biographical Contexts and Global Relocations -- Critical and Creative Approaches, Receptions, and Responses -- Part I: Re-reading Texts -- 2 Dubliners: Surprised by Chance -- 3 Desire, Freedom, and Confessional Culture in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- Judging the Young Artist: Autobiography, Nationhood, Sexuality A Tale of Confessions and ConstraintsGiving Lip Service to Confession: Desire, Heresy, Literature, Politics -- Confessional Turnings and the Snakes of Ireland -- The Thrill and the End of Confession -- Beyond the Horizon of Confessional Constraints -- 4 Ulysses: The Epic of the Human Body -- Inner Organs -- Cloacal Obsessions -- Throwaway Economics -- Returns -- The Flesh Made Word -- 5 Finnegans Wake: Novel and Anti-novel -- Duality and Criticism -- The "War on Language" as a Defense of "Active Nature" -- Knowledge and the Resilience of Nature "Look at all the plotsch!" (FW 81 2)"All the charictures in the drame" (FW 302 32) -- Part II: Contexts and Locations -- 6 European Joyce -- Joyce's View of His Own Mission -- Artistic Europe in Joyce's Work -- The View from Europe -- Master of Languages -- 7 "In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis"? Joyce's Reception in Ireland, 1900-1940 -- Placing Joyce in Histories of Irish Literature -- Reading Joyce before 1922 -- Reading Joyce in the 1920s -- 8 His città immediata: Joyce's Triestine Home from Home 9 James Joyce and German Literature, or Reflections on the Vagaries and Vacancies of Reception StudiesApproaches to Reception and Influence -- Gustav Freytag as Influence -- The Potential Connection with Heinrich Böll -- Ostensible Non-connection with Rilke -- Conclusion -- 10 Molly's Gibraltar: The Other Location in Joyce's Ulysses -- The Exegetical Tradition -- The Multi-ethnic Field -- "The B Marche Paris" -- 11 Joyce and Postcolonial Theory: Analytic and Tropical Modes -- Analytic and Tropical Modes and the Language of Postcolonialism Deconstruction, Bakhtin, and Postcolonial AppropriationsFamiliar and Unfamiliar Tropes: The Same Anew -- The Analytic and the Psychoanalytic: Bhabha and the Ghosts of History -- From Analytic Cleansing to Tropical Rebirth: Voicing Joyce -- 12 "United States of Asia": James Joyce and Japan -- Introduction -- The Rise of the Empire of Japan in Ulysses -- The Early Reception of Joyce in Japan -- The Fall of the Empire of Japan in Finnegans Wake -- Conclusion -- 13 Where Agni Araflammed and Shiva Slew: Joyce's Interface with India -- Joyce and India