A celebration of the transformative effects of James Joyce's time in Trieste Joyce in Trieste is a record of the transformation in text, meaning, and language that Trieste worked upon Joyce. This volume begins with three path-breaking essays: Michael Groden's unveiling of the manuscripts acquired by the National Library of Ireland in 2002, Margot Norris's introduction of the particularly effective paradigm of "risky reading" to describe the provocative re-contextualizations in history, theory, and culture that reveal something new about Joyce's work, and Zack Bowen's celebration of the Platonic and erotic qualities of Joyce's language. Each essay opens up to a section that follows the opening lead: essays on manuscript genetics following Groden, a political set of essays following Norris, and a set of essays on language following Bowen. Included are some final thoughts from the late Hugh Kenner, work from Joyceans such as Vike Martina Plock and Dirk Van Hulle, and political studies of Israel and Palestine. This volume provides a lively and useful summary of recent and future directions of Joyce scholarship and will be of particular interest to Joyce and Irish studies scholars as well as those interested in provocative readings of twentieth-century literature.
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
List of Illustrations 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 List of Contributors Index
"This attractive book . . . presents a set of substantial readings."-Modern Language Review "Add[s] yet another celebratory chord to the polyphony of Joycean scholarship."-English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
