A Companion to James Joyce 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 25 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
Tabella dei contenuti
List 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 Mc Court
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
Circa l’autore
Richard Brown is Reader in Modern Literature in the School of English at the University of Leeds. As well as a wide variety of articles on Joyce and other areas, Brown has published three books on the author: James Joyce and Sexuality (1985), James Joyce: A Postculturalist Perspective (1992), and Joyce, ‘Penelope’ and the Body (2006). Since 1980 he has been co-editor of the James Joyce Broadsheet, a journal which continues to publish articles, book reviews, illustrations, news, and other material connected to the work of Joyce, three times a year. He currently serves as an elected Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation.