A companion to James Joyce / edited by Richard Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Richard, 1954-

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 52.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Joyce, James.

Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xviii, 440 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Re-readings, Relocations, and Receptions / Richard Brown 1

Part I Re-reading Texts 17

2 Dubliners: Surprised by Chance / Vicki Mahaffey 19

3 Desire, Freedom, and Confessional Culture in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / John Paul Riquelme 34

4 Ulysses: The Epic of the Human Body / Maud Ellmann 54

5 Finnegans Wake: Novel and Anti-novel / Finn Fordham 71

Part II Contexts and Locations 91

6 European Joyce / Geert Lernout 93

7 "In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis"? Joyce's Reception in Ireland, 1900-1940 / John Nash 108

8 His citta immediata: Joyce's Triestine Home from Home / John McCourt 123

9 James Joyce and German Literature, or Reflections on the Vagaries and Vacancies of Reception Studies / Robert K. Weninger 137

10 Molly's Gibraltar: The Other Location in Joyce's Ulysses / Richard Brown 157

11 Joyce and Postcolonial Theory: Analytic and Tropical Modes / Mark Wollaeger 174

12 "United States of Asia": James Joyce and Japan / Eishiro Ito 193

13 Where Agni Araflammed and Shiva Slew: Joyce's Interface with India / Krishna Sen 207

14 Joyce and New Zealand: Biography, Censorship, and Influence / David G. Wright 223

Part III Approaches and Receptions 239

15 Joyce's Homer, Homer's Joyce / Declan Kiberd 241

16 The Joyce of French Theory / Jean-Michel Rabate 254

17 Joyce, Music, and Popular Culture / R. Brandon Kershner 270

18 The Joyce of Manuscripts / Daniel Ferrer 286

19 Joyce's Bridge to Late Twentieth-Century British Theater: Harold Pinter's Dialogue with Exiles / Mark Taylor-Batty 300

20 The Joyce Effect: Joyce in Visual Art / Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes 318

21 "In his secondmouth language": Joyce and Irish Poetry / Derval Tubridy 341

22 "Ghostly Light": Spectres of Modernity in James Joyce's and John Huston's "The Dead" / Luke Gibbons 359

23 Joyce through the Little Magazines / Katherine Mullin 374

24 Joyce and Radio / Jane Lewty 390

25 Scotographia: Joyce and Psychoanalysis / Luke Thurston 407.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

9781405110440

1405110449

OCLC:

123137096

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