The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce

This second edition will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom.

Derek Attridge (Edited by)

9780521837101, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 June 2004

314 pages
22.9 x 16.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.63 kg

'These essays offer introductions to numerous ways of locating Joyce in the wider world of theory and ideas, and are useful springboards back into the works themselves … reading adding another layer to our understanding of the man and the work.' The Irish Times

This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.

Preface
Contributors
Chronology of Joyce's life
1. Reading Joyce Derek Attridge
2. Joyce the Irishman Seamus Deane
3. Joyce the Parisian Jean-Michel Rabaté
4. Joyce the Modernist Christopher Butler
5. Dubliners Garry Leonard
6. Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: transforming the nightmare of history John Paul Riquelme
7. Ulysses Jennifer Levine
8. Finnegans Wake Margot Norris
9. Joyce's shorter works Vicki Mahaffey
10. Joyce and feminism Jeri Johnson
11. Joyce and sexuality Joseph Valente
12. Joyce and consumer culture Jennifer Wicke
13. Joyce, colonialism and nationalism Marjorie Howes
Further reading
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary theory [DSA]