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.

Contributors: Hugo Azerad Zack Bowen Austin Briggs Brian G. Caraher Nick De Marco Michael Groden Arye Kendi Hugh Kenner Borislav Knezevic Sebastian D. G. Knowles Ira B. Nadel Margot Norris Vike Martina Plock Richard Robinson Andre Topia Carla Marengo Vaglio Dirk Van Hulle

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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

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Index