Joyce in Context

This challenging collections of essays by an international team of scholars aims to put the work of James Joyce in context.

Vincent John Cheng (Edited by), Timothy Martin (Edited by)

9780521112079, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 June 2009

312 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.46 kg

This challenging collection of essays by an international group of scholars aims, through the critical concept of 'context', to put the work of James Joyce in its 'place'. The four sections explore a range of contexts, offering significant perspectives - historical, theoretical, feminist, cultural and linguistic - on Joyce's writing. Essays on the modernist context place Joyce alongside contemporaries, like Woolf, Ford, and Freud, re-evaluating accepted notions of literary relationship and ideology. The context of the 'other' is invoked in essays drawing on recent developments in feminist, post-structuralist, and psychoanalytic literary theory, and taking Joyce's work as a site for provocative investigations into the nature of sexual, national, ethnic and cultural marginality. Some original re-readings of Joyce's relationship to particular writers, critics and cultural traditions draw him into proximity with Homer, Lacan, the comic strip and Irish popular literature. Finally, in essays that examine aspects and evolutions of his distinctive style, Joyce is considered within the parameters of his own oeuvre.

List of illustrations and cartoon figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Editors' introduction
1. The 1989 conference: a retrospect Timothy Martin
Part I. Modernist Context: 2. Is there a case against Ulysses? Denis Donoghue
3. Woolf and Joyce: reading and revision Johanna X. K. Garvey
4. Joyce and Ford Madox Ford Vincent J. Cheng
5. Joyce and Freud: discontent and its civilizations Brian W. Shaffer
Part II. The Context of the Other: 6. Joyce on the Margins: cheating on the father: Joyce and gender justice in Ulysses Colleen R. Lamos
7. Demythologising nationalism: Joyce's dialogised grail myth Theresa O'Connor
8. Joyce and Michelet: why watch Molly menstruate? Bonnie Kime Scott
9. Re-visioning Joyce's masculine signature Suzette Henke
Part III. Contexts For Joyce: 10. 'Scrupulous Meanness' reconsidered: Dubliners as stylistic parody Roy Gottfried
11. Joyce and Lacan: the twin narratives of history and history in the 'Nestor' chapter of Ulysses Garry M. Leonard
12. Joyce and Homer: return, disguise, and recognition in 'Ithaca' Constance V. Tagopoulos
13. James Joyce and cartoons Daniel Schiff
Part IV. Re-Reading Joyce: 14. Joyce in his own Context: Refining himself out of existence: the evolution of Joyce's esthetic theory and the drafts of A Portrait Ian Crump
15. Entering the lists: sampling early catalogues Fritz Senn
16. Cataloguing in Finnegans Wake: counting countries Bernard Benstock
Translating Ulysses, east and west Di Jin.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]