A Companion to James Joyce

Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and even Finnegans Wake hold established places in the canon of twentieth–century modernist literature. Contemporary writers and artists – particularly the more experimental or avant–garde − have been inspired by Joyce, often placing him at the forefront of significant cultural change. Many innovations in literary and cultural theory, as well as modern developments in academic criticism, are defined by and through productive encounters with Joyce’s work. A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite overview and analysis of aspects of Joyce’s writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth– and twenty–first–century literatures. The volume’s essays offer select critical readings of texts and explore directions for contemporary and future Joyce studies. A comprehensive resource for students and scholars, the book highlights current key debates and places the discussion of Joyce in some familiar and some less expected surroundings suggesting future departures for criticism.

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 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

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.

"Boasting twenty–five essays by well–known Joyce experts from across the globe, the companion has been designed to serve both as a comprehensive and accessible guide for university students (who will also benefit from the useful ‘directions for further reading′ that feature in every essay), and as an invaluable resource for Joyce experts who will have much to glean from the expanding circuits of scholarship made available here. Above all, the volume is a testament not just to the continuing importance of James Joyce, but also the global ubiquitousness of this modernist icon." (Journal of British Comparative Lit. Association, 1 October 2010) “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)