A Companion to James Joyce

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Offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures. Brings together newly-commissioned essays by some of the top scholars in the field. Explores Joyce's distinctive cultural place in Irish, British and European modernism and the growing impact of his work elsewhere in the world. A comprehensive and timely Companion to current debates and possible areas of future development in Joyce studies. Offers new critical readings of several of Joyce's works, including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses.;Introduction: Re-readings, relocations, and receptions / Richard Brown -- Dubliners: surprised by chance / Vicki Mahaffey -- Desire, freedom, and confessional culture in A portrait of the artist as a young man / John Paul Riquelme -- Ulysses: the epic of the human body / Maud Ellmann -- Finnegans wake: novel and anti-novel / Finn Fordham -- European Joyce / Geert Lernout -- "In the heart of the Hibernian metropolis"? Joyce's reception in Ireland, 1900-1940 / John Nash -- His città immediata: Joyce's triestine home from home / John McCourt -- James Joyce and German literature, or reflections on the vagaries and vacancies of reception studies / Robert K. Weninger -- Molly's Gibraltar: the other location in Joyce's Ulysses / Richard Brown -- Joyce and postcolonial theory: analytic and tropical modes / Mark Wollaeger -- "United States of Asia": James Joyce and Japan / Eishiro Ito -- Where Agni Araflammed and Shiva Slew: Joyce's interface with India / Krishna Sen -- Joyce and New Zealand: biography, censorship, and influence / David G. Wright -- Joyce's Homer, Homer's Joyce / Declan Kiberd -- The Joyce of French theory / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- Joyce, music, and popular culture / R. Brandon Kershner -- The Joyce of manuscripts / Daniel Ferrer -- Joyce's bridge to late twentieth-century British theater: Harold Pinter's dialogue with exiles / Mark Taylor-Batty -- The Joyce effect: Joyce in visual art / Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes -- "In his secondmouth language": Joyce and Irish poetry / Derval Tubridy -- "Ghostly light": spectres of modernity in James Joyce's and John Huston's "The dead" / Luke Gibbons -- Joyce through the little magazines / Katherine Mullin -- Joyce and radio / Jane Lewty -- Scotographia: Joyce and psychoanalysis / Luke Thurston. Introduction: Re-readings, relocations, and receptions / Richard Brown -- Dubliners: surprised by chance / Vicki Mahaffey -- Desire, freedom, and confessional culture in A portrait of the artist as a young man / John Paul Riquelme -- Ulysses: the epic of the human body / Maud Ellmann -- Finnegans wake: novel and anti-novel / Finn Fordham -- European Joyce / Geert Lernout -- "In the heart of the Hibernian metropolis"? Joyce's reception in Ireland, 1900-1940 / John Nash -- His città immediata: Joyce's triestine home from home / John McCourt -- James Joyce and German literature, or reflections on the vagaries and vacancies of reception studies / Robert K. Weninger -- Molly's Gibraltar: the other location in Joyce's Ulysses / Richard Brown -- Joyce and postcolonial theory: analytic and tropical modes / Mark Wollaeger -- "United States of Asia": James Joyce and Japan / Eishiro Ito -- Where Agni Araflammed and Shiva Slew: Joyce's interface with India / Krishna Sen -- Joyce and New Zealand: biography, censorship, and influence / David G. Wright -- Joyce's Homer, Homer's Joyce / Declan Kiberd -- The Joyce of French theory / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- Joyce, music, and popular culture / R. Brandon Kershner -- The Joyce of manuscripts / Daniel Ferrer -- Joyce's bridge to late twentieth-century British theater: Harold Pinter's dialogue with exiles / Mark Taylor-Batty -- The Joyce effect: Joyce in visual art / Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes -- "In his secondmouth language": Joyce and Irish poetry / Derval Tubridy -- "Ghostly light": spectres of modernity in James Joyce's and John Huston's "The dead" / Luke Gibbons -- Joyce through the little magazines / Katherine Mullin -- Joyce and radio / Jane Lewty -- Scotographia: Joyce and psychoanalysis / Luke Thurston.