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Joyce in Trieste

Name: Joyce in Trieste
Author: Sebastian D.G. Knowles
ISBN: 9780813081311

An Album of Risky Readings

Edited by Sebastian D.G. Knowles, Geert Lernout and John McCourt

Published by: University Press of Florida

Series: The Florida James Joyce Series

Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book celebrates the transformative effects of the city of Trieste on Joyce’s writing.

272 Pages6.14 × 9.212 b/w illus., 3 tables, notes, index

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Published: April 28, 2026

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A celebration of the transformative effects of James Joyce’s time in Trieste

Joyce in Trieste is a record of the transformation in text, meaning, and language that Trieste worked upon James Joyce. This volume begins with three path-breaking essays: Michael Groden’s discussion of the manuscripts acquired by the National Library of Ireland in 2002, Margot Norris’s introduction of the paradigm of “risky reading” to describe the provocative re-contextualizations in history, theory, and culture that reveal something new about Joyce’s work, and Zack Bowen’s celebration of the Platonic and erotic qualities of Joyce’s language.

Each essay opens up to a section that follows the opening lead: essays on manuscript genetics following Groden, a political set of essays following Norris, and a set of essays on language following Bowen. This volume provides a lively and useful summary of recent and future directions of Joyce scholarship and will be of particular interest to Joyce and Irish studies scholars as well as those interested in provocative readings of twentieth-century literature.

Sebastian D. G. Knowles is professor emeritus of English at Ohio State University. Geert Lernout is professor emeritus at the University of Antwerp. He is general editor of European Joyce Studies and Genetic Joyce Studies. John McCourt is codirector of the University of Trieste’s Trieste Joyce School. He is the author of The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste, 1904–1920.

“An exceptionally rewarding collection of essays. The editors have assembled an unusually broad and varied group of contributors to represent the current state of Joyce criticism worldwide.”—R. Brandon Kershner, author of The Culture of Joyce’s “Ulysses”

“This attractive book . . . presents a set of substantial readings.”—Modern Language Review
“Add[s] yet another celebratory chord to the polyphony of Joycean scholarship.”—English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Sebastian D. G. Knowles

I. Reading Joyce: Text, Meaning, and Language

1. The National Library of Ireland’s New Joyce Manuscripts
Michael Groden

2. Risky Reading of Risky Writing
Margot Norris

3. Plato, Homer, and Joyce: Involving Orientalism, a Smidgeon of Smut, and a Pinch of Perverse Egotism
Zack Bowen

II. Text: Genetic Readings

4. Narrative as Potential: The Virus and the Program
Andre Topia

5. “Oxen of the Sun” and the Gestation of the Word
Nick De Marco

6. Dame Plurabelle: Joyce’s Art of Decomposition and Recombination
Dirk Van Hulle

7. “Negative Utopia” in James Joyce, Walter Benjamin, and Ernst Bloch
Hugo Azerad

III. Meaning: Political Readings

8. Why Does Gerty Limp?
Vike Martina Plock

9. A “ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry”: Reading Nightmares of Orientalist History in Joyce’s Ulysses
Brian G. Caraher

10. “Nothing doing. Still an idea behind it”: The Restoration of Zion
Arye Kendi

11. Is There a Class to Renounce in This Text? Gentlemanly Ideology in A Portrait of the Artist
Borislav Knezevic

12. Buckley in a General Russia: Finnegans Wake and Political Space
Richard Robinson

IV. Language: Joycean Readings

13. Jim the Comedian
Hugh Kenner

14. Breakfast at 7 Eccles Street: Oeufs Sacher-Masoch?
Austin Briggs

15. Molly’s Mediterranean Meals and Other Joycean Cuisines: An Essay with Recipes
Ira B. Nadel

16. Cinematic Joyce: Mediterranean Joyce
Carla Marengo Vaglio

List of Contributors

Index

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Joyce in Trieste

An Album of Risky Readings

Joyce in Trieste

An Album of Risky Readings

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