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
