A Companion to James Joyce

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1044-0
Verlag: BLACKWELL PUBL

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 182 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 980 g

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

James Joyce, an iconic figure within Irish, British, European and American cultures, is growing in importance in more widely global cultural contexts as well. Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and, above all, Ulysses hold an unassailable place within the canon of twentieth-century modernist literature. Contemporary writers-- particularly the more experimental or avant-garde- are 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 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.

Zielgruppe

undergraduate and graduate students studying modernism, twentieth-century literature, Irish literature or the modern novel

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.

Notes on Contributors.

1. Introduction: Re-readings, Relocations and Receptions: Richard Brown (University of Leeds).

PART I: Re-reading Texts.

2. Dubliners: Surprised by Chance: Vicki Mahaffey (University of York).

3. Desire, Freedom and Confessional Culture in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: John Paul Riquelme (Boston University).

4. Ulysses: The Epic of the Human Body: Maud Ellmann (University of Notre Dame).

5. Finnegans Wake: Novel and Anti-novel: Finn Fordham (University of Nottingham).

PART II: Contexts and Locations.

6. European Joyce: Geert Lernout (University of Antwerp).

7. "In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis"?: Joyce's Reception in Ireland, 1900-1940: John Nash (Durham University).

8. His città immediata:Joyce's Triestine Home from Home: John McCourt (University of Trieste).

9. Joyce and German Literature: Reflections on the Vagaries and Vacancies of Reception Studies: Robert Weninger (Kings College, London).

10. Molly's Gibraltar: The Other Location in Joyce's Ulysses: Richard Brown (University of Leeds).

11. Joyce and Postcolonial Theory: Analytic and Tropical Modes: Mark Wollaeger (Vanderbilt University).

12. "United States of Asia": James Joyce and Japan: Eishiro Ito (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan).

13. Where Agni Araflammed and Shiva Slew: Joyce's Interface with India: Krishna Sen (University of Calcutta).

14. Joyce and New Zealand: Biography, Censorship and Influence: David G. Wright (University of Auckland, New Zealand).

PART III: Approaches and Receptions.

15. Joyce's Homer, Homer's Joyce: Declan Kiberd (University College Dublin).

16. The Joyce of French Theory: Jean-Michel Rabaté (Princeton University).

17. Joyce, Music and Popular Culture: R.Brandon Kershner (University of Florida).

18. The Joyce of Manuscripts: Daniel Ferrer (Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (CNRS-ENS)).

19. Joyce's Bridge to Late Twentieth-Century Theatre: Harold Pinter's Dialogue with Exiles: Mark Taylor-Batty (University of Leeds).

20. "The Joyce Effect": Joyce in Visual Art: Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (University of Ulster).

21. "In his secondmouth language": Joyce in Irish Poetry: Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London).

22. "Ghostly Light": Spectres of Modernity in James Joyce's and John Huston's "The Dead": Luke Gibbons (University of Notre Dame).

23. Joyce Through the Little Magazines: Katherine Mullin (University of Leeds).

24. Joyce and Radio: Jane Lewty (University College London).

25. Scotographia: Joyce and Psychoanalysis: Luke Thurston (University of Wales at Aberystwyth).

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

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) and 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.