Contents
List of Abbreviations and Editions Used
1 Introduction: Re-readings, Relocations, and Receptions
Joycean Geographies: Biographical Contexts and Global Relocations
Critical and Creative Approaches, Receptions, and Responses
2 Dubliners: Surprised by Chance
3 Desire, Freedom, and Confessional Culture in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Judging the Young Artist: Autobiography, Nationhood, Sexuality
A Tale of Confessions and Constraints
Giving Lip Service to Confession: Desire, Heresy, Literature, Politics
Confessional Turnings and the Snakes of Ireland
The Thrill and the End of Confession
Beyond the Horizon of Confessional Constraints
4 Ulysses: The Epic of the Human Body
5 Finnegans Wake: Novel and Anti-novel
The “War on Language” as a Defense of “Active Nature”
Knowledge and the Resilience of Nature
“Look at all the plotsch!” (FW 81 2)
“All the charictures in the drame” (FW 302 32)
Part II: Contexts and Locations
Joyce’s View of His Own Mission
Artistic Europe in Joyce’s Work
7 “In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis”? Joyce’s Reception in Ireland, 1900–1940
Placing Joyce in Histories of Irish Literature
8 His città immediata: Joyce’s Triestine Home from Home
Approaches to Reception and Influence
The Potential Connection with Heinrich Böll
Ostensible Non-connection with Rilke
10 Molly’s Gibraltar: The Other Location in Joyce’s Ulysses
11 Joyce and Postcolonial Theory: Analytic and Tropical Modes
Analytic and Tropical Modes and the Language of Postcolonialism
Deconstruction, Bakhtin, and Postcolonial Appropriations
Familiar and Unfamiliar Tropes: The Same Anew
The Analytic and the Psychoanalytic: Bhabha and the Ghosts of History
From Analytic Cleansing to Tropical Rebirth: Voicing Joyce
12 “United States of Asia”: James Joyce and Japan
The Rise of the Empire of Japan in Ulysses
The Early Reception of Joyce in Japan
The Fall of the Empire of Japan in Finnegans Wake
13 Where Agni Araflammed and Shiva Slew: Joyce’s Interface with India
14 Joyce and New Zealand: Biography, Censorship, and Influence
Part III: Approaches and Receptions
15 Joyce’s Homer, Homer’s Joyce
17 Joyce, Music, and Popular Culture
Literary Theory and Popular Culture
Joyce Studies and Popular Culture
Over-Determination: A Genetic Aporia
19 Joyce’s Bridge to Late Twentieth-Century British Theater: Harold Pinter’s Dialogue with Exiles
20 The Joyce Effect: Joyce in Visual Art
Inspiration, Influence, Legacy, Effect, and Reverence
21 “In his secondmouth language”: Joyce and Irish Poetry
22 “Ghostly Light”: Spectres of Modernity in James Joyce’s and John Huston’s “The Dead”
Haunted Cinema: A “Second Spectre”
23 Joyce through the Little Magazines
The Egoist: Firing the Sex Problem?
The Little Review: Making no Compromise with the Public Taste?
transition: A Revolution of the Word?
25 Scotographia: Joyce and Psychoanalysis