Joyce James - A Companion to James Joyce

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

Essays offering new riffs and revisions stand out Vicki Mahaffey on Dubliners, Finn Fordham on Finnegans Wake, Declan Kiberd on the Odyssey, Rabat on French theory, and Daniel Ferrer on genetic criticism and one welcomes the contributions of newer scholars, e.g., Katherine Mullin. Recommended.

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A diverse collection A fascinating discussion of Joyce.

James Joyce Broadsheet

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post- canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field.

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A companion to James Joyce / edited by Richard Brown.

p. cm.(Blackwell companions to literature and culture; 52)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-1044-0 (hardcover: alk. paper); ISBN 978-0-470-65796-6 (pbk)

1. Joyce, James, 18821941Criticism and interpretation. I. Brown, Richard, 1954
PR6019.O9Z52715 2008
823.912dc22
2007015777

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Acknowledgments

Im happy to acknowledge the imaginative, prompt, courteous, and professional efforts made by each of the contributors to this volume and the depth and range of their enthusiasms and expertise which have made the project both conceivable in the first place and such an enjoyable and rewarding challenge in its coming to fruition. The intellectual resources of the international community of James Joyce studies never ceases to impress and many of the perspectives offered in this volume represent intellectual obligations and much-valued, friendly working relationships that have been established over several years of conference-going, editorial work on the James Joyce Broadsheet, and so on. I should offer special thanks to David Wright and the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, for their hospitality and assistance in allowing me to open a genuinely antipodean vantage-point on the project during its early phase. I am grateful to my colleagues in the School of English at Leeds for the semester of study leave which allowed its completion. Id also like to thank Emma Bennett and Karen Wilson at Blackwell for their advice, patience, and support at various stages in the making of the book, and David Williams, John Gaunt, and Jackie Butterley for hard work in the production of a complex text.