James Joyce Criticism - Tables of Contents (2): 1980-1999


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General Index of Criticism
Monographs, Collections & Articles Selected Articles (Annual Listing) Criticism & Reference [title & type]*
Tables of Contents (1929-1979) Tables of Contents (1980-1999) Tables of Contents (2000-Present)
*i.e., On individual works (e.g., Dubliners, Ulysses, &c.) or else by type (e.g., Biography or Chronology, &c.)


Tables of Contents - Monographs & Collections
1980-1999
Colin MacCabe (1982)
Bushrui & Benstock (1982)
Henke & Unkeless (1982)
E. L. Epstein, et al. (1982)
McCormack & Stead (1982)
Attridge & Ferrer (1984)
Heyward Ehrlich (1984)
Bowen & Carens (1984)
Richard Brown (1984)
Bernard Benstock (1985)
Harold Bloom (1986)
Beja, Herring, Harmon & Norris (1986)
Newman & Weldon (1987)
George C. Sandelescu (1986)
Jacques Aubert (1987)
Donald Phillip Verene (1987)
David Lloyd (1987)
Christine van Boheemen (1989)
Bernard Benstock (1989)
Augustine Martin (1990)
Derek Attridge (1990)
Geert Lernout (1990)
E. H. Mikhail (1990)
Dunleavy, Friedman & Gillespie (1991)
Richard Brown (1992)
Cheng & Martin (1992)
Patrick A. McCarthy (1992)
David Lloyd (1993)
Mary T. Reynolds (1993)
Frederick K. Lang (1993)
Susan S. Friedman (1993)
Richard Pearce (1994)
Andrew Gibson (1994)
John Harty III (1995)
Hayman & Slote (1995)
John Bishop (1995)
Wollaeger, Luftig & Spoo (1996)
R. B. Kershner (1996)
Andrew Gibson (1996)
Wawrzycka & Corcoran (1997)
Hodgart & Bauerle (1997)
Cheng, Devlin & Norris (1998)
Joseph Valente (1998)
Len Platt (1998)
Bosinelli & Mosher (1998)
Margot Norris (1998)
Marilyn Reizbaum (1999)
Wim Tigges (1999)
Michael Patrick Gillespie (1999)

Colin MacCabe, ed., James Joyce: New Perspectives (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1982), 198pp. CONTENTS: Fritz Senn, ‘Righting Ulysses’ [3]; MacCabe, ‘An Introduction to Finnegans Wake’ [29; extract]; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘Silence in Dubliners’ [45]; Maud Ellmann, ‘Polytropic Man: Paternity, Identity, and Naming in The Odyssey and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ [73]; Raymond Williams, ‘Exiles’ [105]; MacCabe, ‘The Voice of Esau: Stephen in the Library’ [111]; Stephen Heath, ‘Joyce in Language’ [129]; Patrick Parrinder, ‘The Strange Necessity: James Joyce’s Rejection in England (1914-30)’ [151]; Seamus Deane, ‘Joyce and Nationalism’ [168]; Maria Jolas, ‘The Joyce I Knew and the Women around Him’ [184]. Index, 195ff.

Suheil Badi Bushrui & Bernard Benstock, eds., James Joyce: An International Perspective: Centenary Essays in Honour of the late Sir Desmond Cochrane (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe [16 June] 1982), 301pp. CONTENTS: ‘A Message from Samuel Beckett [vii]; ‘In Memoriam Sir Desmond Cochrane 1918-1979’ [ix]; Foreword: Richard Ellmann, ‘Joyce After a Hundred Years’ [xi]; Acknowledgements [xiii]; Suheil Badi Bushrui & Bernard Benstock, ‘Introduction’ [1]; Geróid Ó Clérigh, ‘James Joyce: Nó Séamas Seoighe’ [9], poem; Terence Brown, ‘Dublin of Dubliners’ [11]; Charles Rossman, ‘The Reader’s Role in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ [19]; Dominic Daniel, ‘Exiles: A Moral Statement’ [38]; Bernard Benstock, ‘On the Nature of Evidence in Ulysses’ [46]; Vivian Mercier, ‘John Eglinton as Socrates: A Study of “Scylla and Charybdis”’ [65]; John Paul Riquelme, ‘Twists of the Teller’s Tale: Finnegans Wake’ [82]; Francis Warner, ‘The Poetry of James Joyce’ [115]; John Montague, ‘James Joyce’ [128], poem; David Norris, ‘A Turnip for the Books: James Joyce, a Centenary Tribute’ [129]; Augustine Martin, ‘Sin and Secrecy in Joyce’s Fiction’ [143]; Declan Kiberd, ‘The Vulgarity of Heroics: Joyce’s Ulysses’ [156]; Suzanne Brown, ‘Night Fox: For James Joyce’ [169]; Phillip Herring, ‘Joyce and Rimbaud: An Introductory Essay’ [170]; Ann Saddlemyer, ‘James Joyce and the Irish Dramatic Movement’ [190]; Suheil Bushrui, ‘The Wanderer: For James Joyce’ [213]; Paul van Caspel, ‘Joyce Studies in the Netherlands’ [215]; Paul & Sylvia Botheroyd, ‘Joyce in Germany and Switzerland’ [222]; Suheil Bushrui, ‘Joyce in the Arab World’ [232]; Thomas F. Staley, ‘Following Ariadne’s String: Tracing Joyce Scholarship into the Eighties’ [250]; Suheil Bushrui, ‘Chronology’ [278]; Contributors [287]; Index [293-301].

Suzette Henke & Elaine Unkeless, eds., Women in Joyce (Brighton: Harvester 1982), 216pp. CONTENTS: Robert Boyle, ‘ The Woman Hidden in James Joyce’s Chamber Music’; Florence L. Walzl, ‘Dubliners’; Bonnie Kime Scott, ‘Emma Clery in Stephen Hero’; Suzette Henke, ‘Stephen Dedalus and Women’; Ruth Bauerle, ‘Bertha’s role in Exiles’; Suzette Henke, ‘Gerty MacDowell’; Elaine Unkeless, ‘The Conventional Molly Bloom’; Shari Benstock, ‘The Genuine Christine’; Margot Norris, ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’.

E. L. Epstein, ed., A Starchamber Quiry: A James Joyce Centennial Volume 1882-1982, with an afterword by Clive Hart (London: Methuen 1982; rep. 1983), 164pp. James Joyce and His Civilisation [ix]; Hugh Kenner, ‘Notes towards an Anatomy of “Modernism”’ [3]; James Joyce and His Orders [43]; Fritz Senn, ‘Weaving, unweaving’ [45]; James Joyce and the body [71]; E. L. Epstein, ‘James Joyce and the body’ [73]; James Joyce and the Soul [107]; Robert Boyle, SJ, ‘Worshipper of the Word: James Joyce and the Trinity’ [109]; James Joyce and his Readers [153]; Clive Hart: ‘Afterword: Reading Finnegans Wake’ [155]. Epigraph: ‘These four claymen clomb together to hold their sworn starchamber quiry on him. For he was ever their quarrel, the way they would see themselves.’ (FW475.18-20.)

W. J. McCormack & Alaistair Stead, James Joyce and Modernism [Joyce conference, Leeds 1982] (London: Routledge 1982), 222pp. [ded. “To Lucia Joyce”]. Contents: William A. Johnsen, ‘James Joyce’s Dubliners and the Futility of Modernism’ [1]; William Trevor, ‘Two More Gallants’ [22]; Timothy Webb, “Planetary Music”: James Joyce and the Romantic Example’ [30]; Christopher Butler, ‘Joyce and the Displaced Author’ [56]; Seamus Heaney, “Leaving the Island”’ [74]; W. J. McCormack, ‘Nightmare of History: James Joyce and the Phenomenon of Anglo-Irish Literature’ [77]; Tom Paulin, ‘Martello’ [108]; Jeremy Hawthorn, ‘Ulysses, Modernism and Marxist Criticism’ [112]; Frederic Jameson, ‘Ulysses in History’ [126]; Alistair Stead, ‘Reflections on “Eumaeus”: Ways of Error and Glory in Ulysses’ [142]; Philip Brockbank, ‘Joyce and Literary Tradition: Language Living, Dead, and Resurrected, from Genesis to Guinnesses’ [166]; Pieter Bekker, ‘Reading Finnegans Wake’ [185]; Edwin Morgan, ‘James Joyce and Hugh MacDiarmid’ [202]; Index’ [218].

Derek Attridge & Daniel Ferrer, eds., Post-structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French (Cambridge UP 1984), 162pp. CONTENTS: Attridge & Ferrer, Introduction: ‘Highly continental evenements’ [1]; Helene Cixous, ‘Joyce: The (r)use of writing’ [15; extract]; Stephen Heath, ‘Ambiviolences: Notes for reading Joyce’ [31]; Jacques Aubert, ‘riverun’ [69]; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘Lapsus ex machine’ [79]; André Topia, ‘The Matrix and the echo: Intertextuality in Ulysses’ [103]; Daniel Ferrer, ‘“Circe”: regret and regression’ [127], Jacques Derrida, ‘Two words for Joyce’ [145-59]. Contributors [161]. Bibl. - origins of the texts: Hélène Cixous, ‘Joyce, la ruse de l’écriture’, in Poétique, 4 (1970), pp.419-32; rep. in Prénoms de personne (Paris: Editions du Seuil 1974); Stephen Heath, ‘Ambiviolences: Notes pour la lecture de Joyce’, in Tel Quel, 50 (1972), pp.22-43, and Do., 51 (1972), pp.64-76; Jacques Aubert, ‘Riverrun’, in Change, 11 (1972), pp.120-30; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘Lapsus ex machina’, in Poétique, 26 (1976), pp.152-72; André Topia, ‘Contrepoints joyciens’, in Poétique, 27 (1976), pp.351-71; Daniel Ferrer, ‘Circé, ou les regrès éternels’ [1975], to be published in Les Cahiers de l’Herne [c.1984]; Jacques Derrida, ‘Deux mots pour Joyce’ [paper given at the Centre Georges Pompidou, 1982].

Richard Brown, James Joyce and Sexuality (Cambridge UP 1985; reps. 1989, 1990), vii, 224pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; 1. Love and marriage; 2. Emissio inter vas naturale; 3. Women; 4. Sexual reality; Notes; Bibliography; Index. [based on “The Sexual Pretext: An Examination of Sexual Themes in Joyce’s Reading and the Engagement of his Writings in Contemporary Discussions of Sexuality”, PhD London Univ. 1981.]

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Heyward Ehrlich, ed., Light Rays: James Joyce and Modernism (NY: New Horizon 1984), 224pp. CONTENTS: [Prologue]; Richard Ellmann, ‘Two perspectives on Joyce’; [Introduction]; Heyward Ehrlich, ‘James Joyce’s Light Rays’; Part 1: Popular Culture]; Leslie Fieldler, ‘To Whom does Joyce Belong?’; Ruby, ‘Ulysses as Parody, Pop and Porn’; Zack Bowen, ‘Joyce and the Modern Coalescence’; [Part 2: Experimental Literature]; Hugh Kenner, ‘Who’s he when he’s at home?’; Fritz Senn, ‘Remodeling Homer’; Ihab Hassan, ‘Finnegan’s Wake and Postmodern Imagination’; [Part 3: The New Sexuality]; Morris Beja, ‘The Joyce of Sex: Sexual Relations in Ulysses’; Robert Boyle, ‘Joyce’s Consubstantiality: Woman as Creator’; [Part 4: Contemporary philosophy]; Morton P. Levitt, ‘The Modernist Age: The Age of James Joyce’; Margot Norris, ‘From The Decentered Universe of Finnegan’s Wake’; [Part 5: Neoteric Psychology]; Norman O. Brown, ‘Closing Time: An Interlude of Farce’; [Part 6; Avant Garde Music]; John Cage, ‘Writing for the Second Time through Finnegan’s Wake’; John Cage, ‘From The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs’; Pierre Boulez, ‘From Third sonata and Structures II’; [Part 7: Abstract Art]; Shari Benstock, ‘The Double Image of Modernism: Matisse’s Etchings for Ulysses’; Evan Firestone, ‘James Joyce and the First Generation New York School’; Ad Reinhardt, ‘A Portend of the Artist as a Jhung Mandala.’

Zack Bowen & James F. Carens, eds., A Companion to Joyce Studies (Westport, Conn: Greenwood 1984), 818pp. CONTENTS: Abbreviations [ix]; Introduction [xi]; Edmund L. Epstein, ‘James Augustine Aloysius Joyce’ [3]; Mary T. Reynolds, ‘Joyce as a Letter Writer’ [39]; Michael Groden, ‘A Textual and Publishing History’ [71]; Chester G. Anderson, ‘Joyce’s Verses’ [129]; Florence L. Walzl, ‘Dubliners’ [157]; Thomas E. Connolly, ‘Stephen Hero’ [229]; Bernard Benstock, ‘Exiles’ [361]; Vicki Mahaffey, ‘Giacomo Joyce’ [387]; Zack Bowen, ‘Ulysses’ [421]; Patrick A. McCarthy, ‘The Structures and Meanings of Finnegans Wake’ [559]; Michael H. Bengal, ‘The Language of Finnegans Wake’ [633]; Barbara DiBernard, ‘Technique in Finnegans Wake’ [647]; Robert Scholes & Marlena G. Corcoran, ‘The Aesthetic Theory and the Critical Writings’ [689]; Morris Beja, ‘Epiphany and the Epiphanies’ [707]; Sidney Feshbach & William Herman, ‘The History of Joyce Criticism and Scholarship’ [727]; Appendix 1; Edmund L. Epstein, ‘Joyce’s Names’ [781]; Appendix 2: Michael Groden, ‘Library Collections of Joyce Manuscripts’ [783]; Contributors [787]; Index [791-818].

Bernard Benstock, ed., Critical Essays on James Joyce (Boston: G. K. Hall 1985), 236pp. CONTENTS: Ezra Pound, ‘Dubliners and Mr. James Joyce’; H. G. Wells, ‘James Joyce’; T. S. Eliot, ‘Ulysses, Order, and Myth’ [1923]; Edmund Wilson, ‘The Dream of H.C. Earwicker’; Samuel Beckett, ‘Dante...Bruno, Vico...Joyce’; Stuart Gilbert, ‘The Rhythm of Ulysses’; Frank Budgen, ‘Joyce’s Chapters of Going Forth by Day’; Richard M. Kain, ‘Talking about Injustice: James Joyce in the Modern World’; Richard Ellmann, ‘The Backgrounds of “The Dead”’; Hugh Kenner, ‘The Cubist Portrait’; Clive Hart, ‘The Elephant in the Belly: Exegesis of Finnegans Wake’; Fritz Senn, ‘Book of Many Turns’; Robert Boyle, S.J., ‘Miracle in Black Ink: A Glance of Joyce’s Use of his Eucharistic Image’; Bernard Benstock, ‘“The Dead”: A Cold Coming’; David Hayman, ‘Nodality and the Infra-structure of Finnegans Wake’; Thomas F. Staley, ‘A Beginning: Signification, Story, and Discourse in Joyce’s “The Sisters”’; Wolfgang Iser, ‘Doing Things in Style: An Interpretation of “The Oxen of the Sun” in James Joyce’s Ulysses’; Margot C. Norris, ‘The Consequences of Deconstruction: A Technical Perspective of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake’; Shari Benstock, ‘Nightletters: Woman’s Writing in the Wake’.

Harold Bloom, ed., James Joyce: Modern Critical Views (NY: Chelsea House 1986), x, 293pp. CONTENTS: Samuel Beckett ‘Dante ... Bruno, Vico .. Joyce ‘; S. L. Goldberg, ‘Homer and the nightmare of history’; Richard Ellmann, ‘Bloom unbound’; Anthony Burgess, ‘The Dublin sound’; Harry Levin, ‘ Ulysses in manuscript’; Richard Ellmann, ‘The consciousness of Joyce’; Hugh Kenner, ‘Joyce’s voices’; Jennifer Schiffer Levine, ‘Originality and repetition in Finnegans wake and Ulysses’; Deborah Pope, ‘The misprision of vision: A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’-; Mary T. Reyonlds, ‘Paternal figures and paternity themes’; Karen Lawrence, ‘“Eumaeus”: the way of all language ‘; Roland McHugh, ‘The Finnegans Wake experience: samples‘ Frederic Jameson, ‘Ulysses in history’; Raymond Williams, ‘-- Exiles’; Gabriele Schwab, ‘Mollyloquy’; Francis Warner, ‘The poetry of James Joyce’; William Empson, ‘-- Ulysses: Joyce’s intentions’; Daniel Ferrer, ‘’Circe,’ regret and regression’; Patrick Parrinder, ‘Dubliners’.

Morris Beja, Phillip Herring, Maurice Harmon, and David Norris, eds., James Joyce: The Centennial Symposium [Papers presented at Eighth International James Joyce Symposium (Illinois UP 1986), xv, 23pp. [contribs. William Chace, Seamus Deane, Karen Lawrence, Suzette Henke, Richard Pearce, Derek Attridge, David Seed, Maud Ellmann, Daniel Ferrer, André Topia, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Robert Young, Bernard Benstock, Carol Shloss, Beryl Schlossman, Margot Norris, Sheldon Brivic, Elliot B. Gose Jr., J. B. Lyons, Ann McCullough O.P., Hugh Kenner, A. Walton Litz.] partly available at Google Books - online].

Robert D. Newman & Weldon Thornton, eds., Joyce’s “Ulysses”: The Larger Perspective (Delaware UP; London: Assoc. UP 1987), 310pp. [contribs. Cheryl Herr, ‘Art, Life, Nature and Culture, Ulysses’ [19]; G. . J. Watson, ‘The Politics of Ulysses’ [39]; Patrick A. McCarthy, ‘Ulysses and the Printed Page’ [59]; Richard M. Kain ‘Fifty Years of Joyce: 1934-1984’ [74]; Karen Lawrence, ‘Paternity, the Legal Fiction’ [89]; John Henry Raleigh, ’Ulysses: Trinitarian and Catholic’ [98]; Michael Patrick Gillespie, ‘Redrawing the Artist as a Young Man’ [123]; James Maddox, ‘Mockery in Ulysses’ [141]; Zack Bowen, ‘Ulysses as a Comic Novel’ [157]; Robert D. Newman, ‘Transformatio Coniunctionis: Alchemy in Ulysses’ [168]; Sheldon Brivic, ‘The Other Ulysses’ [187]; Elliot Gose, ‘The Coincidence of Contraries as Theme and Technique in Ulysses’ [213]; Michael H. Begnal, ‘Art and History: Stephen’s Mirror and Parnell’s Silk Hat’ [233]; Weldon Thornton, ‘Voices and Values in Ulysses’ [244]; Stanley Sultan, ‘The Adventures of Ulysses in Our World’ [271].

George C. Sandelescu, ed., Assessing the 1984 Ulysses (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1986), 300pp. CONTENTS: Bernard Benstock, ‘Ulysses: How Many Texts are There In It?’; Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli, ‘Joyce the Scribe and the Right Hand Reader’; Giovanni Cianci, ‘Typography Underrated: A Note on Aeolus’; Carla de Petris, ‘On Mondadori’s Telemachia’; Richard Ellmann, ‘Crux in the new edition of Ulysses’; Wilhelm Fuger, ‘Unanswered Questions about a Questionable Answer’; Michael Patrick Gillespie, ‘Why Does one Re-read Ulysses?’; Clive Hart, ‘Art Thou Real, My Ideal?’; David Hayman, ‘Balancing the Book, or Pro and Contra the Gabler Ulysses’; Suzette Henke, ‘Reconstructing Ulysses in a Deconstructive Mode’; Richard M. Kain, ‘Dublin 1904’; Carla Marengo Vaglio, ‘Italics in Ulysses’; Ira B. Nadel, ‘Textual Criticism, Literary Theory and the New Ulysses’; Patrick Parrinder, ‘From Telemachus to Penelope: Episodes Anonymous?’; Charles Peake, ‘Some Critical Comments on the Telemachia in the 1984 Ulysses’; C. George Sandulescu, ‘Curios of Signs I am Here to Rede!’; Fitz Senn, ‘Ulysses between Corruption and Correction’; Francisco Garcia Tortosa, ‘Ulysses in Spanish’; Donald Phillip Verene, ‘The 1922 and 1984 Editions: Some Philosophical Considerations’.

Jacques Aubert, [ed.,] Joyce avec Lacan: Jacques Lacan ... (et al.); sous la direction de Jacques Aubert; préface de Jacques-Alain Miller [Bibliothèque des Analytica] (Paris: Navarin / Diffusion Seuil c1987), 211pp., ill. [I: Lacan, Joyce le symptôme, I; Joyce le symptôme, II; Le sinthome [Séminaire de 18 nov. 1975]; le sinthome [Séminaire du 20 jan. 1976]; Aubert, Galeries pour un portrait. II: Catherine Millot, Epiphanies; Jean-Michel Rabate Notes sur les ex-ils; Annie Tardit, L’appensée, le renard, et l’hérésie; Jean-Guy Godin, Du symptôme a son épure: le sinthome; contribs. by Lacan available - online > index.]

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Donald Phillip Verene, ed., Vico and Joyce (NY: SUNY 1987), p.241pp. [Product of a week-long International Conference held at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, June 1985.] CONTENTS: Pt. I: Cycles and History. Northrop Frye, ‘Cycle and Apocalypse in Finnegans Wake’ [3]; Atali Fáj, ‘Vicos Basic Law of History in Finnegans Wake’ [20]; Joseph Mali, ‘Mythology and Counter-History: The New Critical Art of Vico’ [32]; Peter Munz, ‘James Joyce Myth-Maker at the End of Time’ [48]. Pt. II: Joyce and Vico. Bernard Benstock, ‘Vico... Joyce. Triv.. Quad’ [59]; H. S. Harris, ‘What is Mr Ear-Vico Supposed to be Earing?’ [68]; Peter Hughes, ‘From Allusion to Implosion: Vico. Michelet. Joyce, ‘Beckett’ [83]; Rosa Maria Bosinelli, ‘“I use his cycles as a trellis”: Joyce’s Treatment of Vico in Finnegans Wake’ [123]. Pt III: Language and Myth. Donald R. Kelley, ‘In Vico’s Wake’ [135]; Ernesto Grassi, ‘Joyce and Vico: The Demythologization of the Real’ [147]; John O’Neill, ‘Vico mit Freude ReJoyced’ [160]; Naomi S. Baron & Nikhil Battachayra, ‘Vico and Joyce: The Limits of Language’ [175]; Dominic Manganiello, ‘Vico’s Ideal History and Joyces Language’ [196]; Carla Marengo Vaglio, ‘The “Predicable” and the “Practical”: Language and History in Vico and Joyce’ [207]. Pt. IV: Epilogue. Donald Phillip Verene, ‘Vico as Reader of Joyce’ [221]; Vico and Literary History in the Early Joyce’ [100]; The City in Vico, ‘Dante and Joyce’ [110]. Contribs. [233]. [Available at Google Books - online.]

See also his Knowledge of Things Human and Divine: Vico’s New Science and Finnegans Wake (Yale UP 2003).

Donald Phillip Varene

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David Lloyd, Nationalism and Minor Literature: James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism (Berkeley: Cal. UP 1987). INDEX: Joyce, James: pp.xii, 209; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: pp.162, 209, 237-38; Stephen Dedalus, 209, 237-38; Stephen Hero: p.44.

Christine van Boheemen, ed., Joyce, Modernity and Mediation [European Studies 1]; (Amstersdam: Rodopi 1989), 228pp. CONTENTS: Ulrich Schneider, ‘Mediatization in “Aeolus” and “Oxen of the Sun”’; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘The Modernity of Exiles’; Fritz Senn,‘Anagnostic probes’; Christine van Boheemen, “The Language of Flow”: Joyce’s Dispossession of the Feminine in Ulysses’; Marilyn L. Brownstein, ‘Against Mediation: The Role of the Postmodern in The Phaedrus and Finnegans Wake’; Richard Brown, ‘“Perhaps she had not told him all the story”: Observations on the Topic of Adultery in some Modern Literature’; Mary Power, ‘Molly Bloom and Mary Anderson: The Inside Story’; Peter J. de Voogd, ‘James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and the Mediatization of Word and Image’; Marius Buning, ‘History and Modernity in Joyce’s Ulysses’.

Bernard Benstock, ed., Critical Essays on James Joyce’s Ulysses (Boston: G.K. Hall 1989), 331pp.; CONTENTS: Introduction: Bernard Benstock, ‘In the Track of the Odyssean’ [1]; Part 1: “What’s This Here, Guvnor?”’ [3]; Carl Jung, ‘Ulysses: A Monologue’ [9]; A. Walton Litz, ‘The Design of Ulysses’ [27]; Anthony Cronin, ‘The Advent of Bloom’ [57]; John Z. Bennett, ‘Unposted Letter: Joyce’s Leopold Bloom’ [89]; Louis Hyman, ‘Some Aspects of the Jewish Backgrounds of Ulysses’ [99]; Roy K. Guttfried, ‘Joycean Syntax as Appropriate Order’ [129]. Part 2: Anatomies of “Nausicaa”’ [145]; Stuart Gilbert, ‘“Nausicaa”’ [149]; Frank Budgen, ‘[“Nausikaa”]’ [159]; Stanley Sultan, ‘The Strand (Bloom)’ [167]; Harry Blamires, ‘“Nausicaa”’ [177]; Fritz Senn, ‘“Nausicaa”’ [186]; Marilyn French, ‘The World: “Nausikaa”’ [214]; C. H. Peake, ‘Ulysses: Techniques and Styles: “Nausicaa”’ [224]; Paul van Caspel, ‘“Nausicaa”’ [231]. Part 3: Future Indicative’ [239]; Robert Scholes, ‘Ulysses: The Structuralist Perspective’ [243]; Dorrit Cohn, ‘The Autonomous Monologue’ [252]; Jeremy Hawthorn, ‘Ulysses, Modernism, and Marxist Criticism’ [264; also in W. J. McCormack & Alistair Stead, eds., James Joyce and Modernism,1984]; Brook Thomas, ‘Formal Re-creation: Re-reading and Re-joycing the Re-rightings of Ulysses’ [277]; Karen Lawrence, ‘The Narrative Norm’ [292]; Patrick McGee, ‘Gesture: The Letter of the Word’ [304]; Index [327-31].

Augustine Martin, ed., James Joyce: The Artist in the Labyrinth (London: Ryan Publ. 1990), 354pp. CONTENTS: Augustine Martin, ‘The Artist and the Labyrinth’ [11]; T. P. Dolan, ‘The Language of Dubliners’ [25]; Benedict Kiely, ‘Joyce’s Legacy’ [41]; John McGahern, ‘Dubliners’ [63]; John Banville, ‘Survivors of Joyce’ [73]; Deirdre Bair, ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ [83]; Colbert Kearney, ‘Stephen’s Green: The Image of Ireland in Joyce’ [101]; Eamon Grennan, ‘The Poet Joyce’ [121; Vincent Dowling, ‘Directing “Exiles”’ [147]; Clive Hart, ‘The Rhythm of Ulysses’ [153]; Barbara Hardy, ‘Joyce and Homer: Seeing Double’ [169]; Maud Ellmann, The Ghosts of Ulysses’ [193]; Petr Skrabanek, ‘Finnegans Wake: Night Joyce of a Thousand Tiers’ [229]; Maureen Murphy, ‘Joyce and the Folk Imagination’ [241] ; A. N. Jeffares, ‘Joyce’s Precursors’ [261]; Denis Donoghue, ‘Pound’s Joyce, Eliot’s Joyce’ [293]; Brendan Kennelly, ‘Joyce’s Humanism’ [313]; Ulick O’Connor, ‘Joyce and Gogarty: Royal and Ancient, Two Hangers-on’ [333].

Derek Attridge, ed., The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (Cambridge UP 1990), 305pp. CONTENTS: Chronology of Joyce’s life [xi-xiii]; Derek Attridge, ‘ Reading Joyce [1]; Seamus Deane, ‘Joyce the Irishman [31]; Klaus Reichert, ‘The European Background of Joyce’s Writing [55]; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘Joyce the Parisian [83]; John Paul Riquelme, ‘Stephen Hero, Dubliners, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Styles of Realism and Fantasy [103]; Jennifer Levine, ‘Ulysses [131]; Margot Norris, ‘Finnegans Wake [161]; Vicki Mahaffey, ‘Joyce’s Shorter Works [185]; Hans Walter Gabler, ‘Joyce’s Text in Progress [213]; Karen Lawrence, ‘Joyce and Feminism [237]; Christopher Butler, ‘Joyce, Modernism, and Post-modernism’ [259]; Further Reading [283]; Index [295-305].

Geert Lernout, ed., Finnegans Wake: Fifty Years [European Joyce Studies, Vol. II] (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1990), 173pp. CONTENTS: Claude Jacquet, In the buginning was the wold: James Joyce and Genetic Criticism [23]; Dirk Vanderbeke, Elisabeth Ruge & Reinhard Schafer, Digressions in the Book for Allemannen [37]; Klaus Reichert, Vico’s Method and its Relation to Joyce’s [47]; Fritz Senn,, Vexations of Group Reading: ‘transluding from the otherman’ [61]; 4. Laurent Milesi, Metaphors of the Question in Finnegans Wake [79]; Vincent Deane, HCE and the Fall of Pelagius [109]; Alan Roughley, ALP’s ‘Sein’ and “Zeit”: Questions of Finnegans Wake’s Being and Language in a Philosophical Context [125]; Hanjo Berressem, The Letter, The Litter!: The Defilement of the Signifier in Finnegans Wake [139]; Danis Rose & John O’Hanlon, A Nice Beginning: On the Ulysses / Finnegans Wake Interface [165]. [Partially available at Google Books - online.]

E. H. Mikhail, ed., Ecce Puer: James Joyce: Interviews and Recollections (Springer 1990), 207pp. CONTENTS: A Sister Recalls Joyce in Dublin - May Joyce Monaghan [1]; My School Friend James Joyce - Judge Eugene Sheehy; [9] An Extremely Clever Boy - George Russell [15] a Portrait of the Artist - Oliver St John Gogarty [32] Joyce Among the Journalists - Piaras Béaslaí [41] Two Reminiscences Antonio - Fonda Savio [48] My First English Teacher - Mario Nordio [57] Pappy Never Spoke of Jims Books - Eileen Joyce Schaurek [69] Visits with James Joyce - P. Beaumont Wadsworth [89] A Drink with Joyce - Ernest Hemingway [102] James Joyce in Paris - Aldous Huxley [118] James Joyce in Paris - Margaret Anderson [133] Joyce - Virgil Thomson [147] James Joyce in Paris - Mary Colum [160] Joyce’s Burial - Hans Gasser [175] Index [198].

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Janet E. Dunleavy, Melvin J. Friedman & Michael Patrick Gillespie, eds., Joycean Occasions: Essays from the Milwaukee James Joyce Conference (Delaware UP 1991), 246pp.; CONTENTS: Patrick A. McCarthy, ‘Reading in Ulysses’ [15]; Daniel P. Gunn, ‘The name of Bloom’ [33]; Suzette Henke, ‘Joyce’s New Womanly Man: Sexual Signatures of Androgynous Transformation in Ulysses’ [46]; Zack Bowen, ‘Comic Narration’ [59]; Susan Brienza, ‘Murphy, Shem, Morpheus, and Murphies: Eumaeus Meets the Wake’ [80]; Shari Benstock, ‘Apostrophes: Framing Finnegans Wake’ [95]; ‘“The bawl of bats” in Joyce’s Belfry: The Flitter-mouse in the Feminine’ [125]; Bernard Benstock, ‘James Joyce: The Olefactory Factor’ [138]; Richard Corballis, ‘Wilde ... Joyce ... O’Brien ... Stoppard: Modernism and Postmodernism in Travesties’ [157]; Fritz Senn, ‘Joycean Provections’ [171]; Sidney Feshbach, ‘“The Veripatetic Imago”’ [195]; Mary Reynolds, ‘Davin’s Boots: Joyce, Yeats, and Irish History’ [218]; Notes on Contributors [235]; Index [239].

Vincent Cheng & Timothy Martin, eds, Joyce in Context [James Joyce Conference, Philadelphia 1989] (Cambridge UP 1992), xvii, 292pp. CONTENTS: List of illustrations’ [ix]; Notes on contributors’ [xi]; Acknowledgments’ [xv]; Abbreviations’ [xvi]. Editors’ introduction’ [1]; 1. Timothy Martin, ‘The 1989 conference: a retrospect’ [9]. PART I - THE MODERNIST CONTEXT: 2. Denis Donoghue, ‘Is there a case against Ulysses ?’ [19]; 3. Johanna X. K. Garvey, ‘Woolf and Joyce: Reading and Re/vision’ [40]; 4. Vincent J. Cheng, ‘Joyce and Ford Madox Ford’ [55]; 5. Brian W. Shaffer, ‘Joyce and Freud: Discontent and Its Civilizations’ [73]. PART II - THE CONTEXT OF THE OTHER: JOYCE ON THE MARGINS: 6. Colleen R. Lamos, ‘Cheating on the Father: Joyce and Gender Justice in Ulysses’ [91]; 7. Theresa O’Connor, ‘Demythologizing Nationalism: Joyce’s Dialogized Grail myth’ [100]; 8. Bonnie Kime Scott, ‘Joyce and Michelet: Why Watch Molly Menstruate?’ [122]; 9. Suzette Henke, ‘Re-visioning Joyce’s masculine signature’ [138]. PART III - CONTEXTS FOR JOYCE: 10. Roy Gotffried, ‘“Scrupulous Meanness” Reconsidered: Dubliners as Stylistic Parody’ [153]; 11. Garry M. Leonard, ‘Joyce and Lacan: the Twin Narratives of History and His[S]tory in the “Nestor” Chapter of Ulysses’ [170]; 12. Constance V. Tagopoulos, ‘Joyce and Homer: Return, Disguise, and Recognition in “Ithaca” [184]; 13. Dan Schiff, ‘James Joyce and Cartoons’ [201]. PART IV - RE-READING JOYCE: JOYCE IN HIS OWN CONTEXT: 14 Ian Crump, ‘Refining himself out of existence: the evolution of Joyce’s aesthetic theory and the drafts of A Portrait’ [223]; 15. Fritz Senn, ‘Entering the Lists: Sampling Early Catalogues’ [241]; 16. Bernard Benstock, ‘Cataloguing in Finnegans Wake: Counting Counties’ [259]; 17. Di Jin, ‘Translating Ulysses, East and West’ [270]. Index [185].

Patrick A. McCarthy, ed., Critical Essays on James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” (NY: G. K. Hall; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan 1992), xi, 274pp. CONTENTS: Clive Hart, ‘Finnegans Wake in adjusted perspective’; Louis O. Mink, ‘Reading Finnegans Wake’; Fritz Senn, ‘A reading exercise in Finnegans Wake ‘; Robert Boyle, ‘Finnegans Wake, page 185: an explication’; Derek Attridge, ‘[The peculiar language of Finnegans Wake]’; Michael Patrick Gillespie, ‘Raiding fur Buginners: FW 611.04-613.04’; Patrick A. McCarthy, ‘The last epistle of Finnegans Wake’; Bernard Benstock, ‘L. Boom as dreamer in Finnegans Wake’; Michael H. Begnal, ‘Finnegans Wake and the nature of narrative’; David Hayman, ‘Nodality and the infra-structure of Finnegans Wake’; John Bishop, ‘The identity of the dreamer’; Adaline Glasheen, ‘Finnegans Wake and the girls from Boston, “Mass”’; Morris Beja, ‘Dividual chaoses: case histories of multiple personality and Finnegans Wake’; Shari Benstock, ‘Sexuality and survival in Finnegans Wake’; Kimberly J. Devlin, ‘”See ourselves as others see us”: Joyce’s look at the eye of the other’; Margot Norris, ‘The last chapter of Finnegans Wake: Stephen finds his mother’; John B. Vickery, ‘Finnegans Wake and the rituals of mortality’; David Pierce, ‘The politics of Finnegans Wake’; Vincent J. Cheng, ‘The general and the sepoy: imperialism and power in the Museyroom’.

Richard Brown, James Joyce: A Post-Culturalist Perspective [Macmillan Modern Novelists] (London: Macmillan 1992), and Do. [in USA], James Joyce (NY: St Martin’s Press 1992), xx, 131pp. CONTENTS: Part 1 “Dubliners”: City of Failure; The Silence of “The Sisters”; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Counterparts; the Dark Gaunt House; Lover Letters. Part 2: “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”: A Portrait of the Reader as Critic; Once upon a Time; Vice Versa; To Say It In Words; Heavenly God; Literary Theory. Part 3: “Ulysses”: Beginnings; Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; The Palimpsest of Identity; Diverging Perspectives; The God of Signposts; The Man Killer. Part 4: “Finnegans Wake”: The book of the Night; The Composition of Everybody; The Years of the Underground; Post-differential Epistemology; Anamorphic Hypotheses. Appendices: Chronology; “Ulysses” Episode by Episode; Shakespeare and Company - The Palimpsest of Identity; Wandering Rocks.

David Lloyd, Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-colonial Moment (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1993). INDEX: Joyce, James: pp. 2, 8, 11n, 57n, 12-21n; Irish Literary Revival: pp.100-09; MacCabe on Ulysses: pp. 107, 109, 120n.

Mary T. Reynolds, ed., James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays (NJ: Prentice Hall 1993), 238pp. CONTENTS: Richard Ellmann, ‘James Joyce: In and Out of Art’; Denis Donoghue, ‘The Fiction of James Joyce’; David Hayman, ‘Language of/as Gesture in Joyce’; Fritz Senn, ‘Joyce’s Misconducting Universe’; Seamus Heaney, “Station Island”; Bonnie Kime Scott, ‘Gender, Discourse, and Culture: Exiles’; Phillip F. Herring, ‘Dubliners: The Trials of Adolescence’; Cheryl Herr, ‘The Sermon as Mass Product: “Grace” and A Portrait’; Hugh Kenner, ‘“O, an impossible person!”’; A. Walton Litz, ‘The Genre of Ulysses’ [cp.117]; Karen Lawrence, ‘Ulysses: The Narrative Norm’; James H. Maddox, ‘Mockery in Ulysses’; Frederic R. Jameson, ‘Ulysses in History’; Maud Ellmann, ‘To Sing or to Sign’; Margot Norris, ‘Finnegans Wake: The Critical Method’; Bernard Benstock, ‘Comic Seriousness and Poetic Prose’; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘Vico’s “Night of Darkness”: The New Science and Finnegans Wake’; Jacques Derrida, ‘Two Words for Joyce’.

Frederick K. Lang, Ulysses and the Irish God (Bucknell UP 1993), [8], 317pp. CONTENTS: Preface [11]; Introduction [15]; Rite and Dogma [27]; Fathers and Sons [67]; The Irish Christ [92]; The Bread of Experience [105]; The Living and the Dead [133]; The Hand of God [169]; Christ in Nighttown [184]; Nocturnal Emissions [199]; An Irish Breakfast [244]; The Good Friday [257]; Notes [280]; Works Cited 297]; Index [303].

Susan Stanford Friedman, ed., Joyce: The Return of the Repressed (Cornell UP 1993), 330pp. CONTENTS: Susan Stanford Friedman, ‘(Self)censorship and the making of Joyce’s modernism’; Alberto Moreiras, ‘Pharmaconomy’; Robert Spoo, ‘Uncanny returns in “The Dead”’; Jay Clayton, ‘A Portrait of the Romantic Poet as a Young Modernist’; Richard Pearce, ‘Simon’s Irish Rose’; Laura Doyle, ‘Races and Chains’; Joseph A. Boone, ‘Staging Sexuality’; Marilyn L. Brownstein, ‘The Preservation of Tenderness’; Ellen Carol Jones, ‘Textual mater’; Christine Froula, ‘Mothers of Invention/Doaters of Inversion’.

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Richard Pearce, ed., Molly Blooms: A Polylogue on “Penelope” and Cultural Studies (Wisconsin UP 1994), 291pp. CONTENTS: Contributors [vii]; Richard Pearce, Introduction: ‘Molly Blooms - A Polylogue on “Penelope”’ [3]. Part 1 - Molly and the Male Gaze: 1. Kathleen McCormick, ‘Reproducing Molly Bloom: A Revisionist History of the Reception of “Penelope,” 1922-1970’ [17; see extract]; 2. Pearce, ‘How Does Molly Bloom Look Through the Male Gaze?’ [40]. Part 2 - Molly in Performance: 3. Cheryl Herr, ‘“Penelope” as Period Piece’ [63]; 4. Kimberly J. Devlin, ‘Pretending in “Penelope”: Masquerade, Mimicry, and Molly Bloom’ [80]. Part 3 - Negotiating Colonialism: 5. Carol Shloss, ‘Molly’s Resistance to the Union: Marriage and Colonialism in Dublin, 1904’ [105 see extract]; 6. Susan Bazargan, ‘Mapping Gibraltar: Colonialism, Time, and Narrative in “Penelope”’ [119; see extract]; 7. Brian W. Shaffer, ‘Negotiating Self and Culture: Narcissism, Competing Discourses, and Ideological Becoming in “Penelope”’ [139; see extract]. Part 4 - Molly as Consumer: 8. Joseph Heininger, ‘Molly Bloom’s Ad Language and Goods Behavior: Advertising as Social Communication in Ulysses’ [155; see extract]; 9. Jennifer Wicke, ‘“Who’s She When She’s at Home?”: Molly Bloom and the Work of Consumption’ [174]; 10. Garry Leonard, ‘Molly Bloom’s “Lifestyle”: The Performative as Normative’ [196; see extract]. Part 5 - Molly as Body and Embodied: 11. Margaret Mills Harper, ‘“Taken in Drapery”: Dressing the Narrative in the Odyssey and “Penelope”’ [237] ; 12. Ewa Ziarek, ‘The Female Body, Technology, and Memory in “Penelope”‘ [264]. Index 287.

Andrew Gibson, ed., Reading Joyce’s “Circe” (Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi 1994), 280pp. CONTENTS: Bibl. Note [1]; Andrew Gibson, Introduction [3]; L. H. Platt, ‘Ulysses’ [15]; [q. auth.] and the Irish Literary Theatre’ [33]; Fritz Senn, “Circe” as Harking Back in Provective Arrangement’ [63]; Steven Connor, “Jigajiga...Yummyyum...Pfuiiiiiii!...Bbbbbllllblblblblobschb!”: ‘Circe’s Ventriloquy’ [93]; R. G. Hampson, “Toft’s Cumbersome Whiligig”: Hallucinations, Thatricality and Mnemotechnic in V.A.19 and the First Edition Text of “Circe”’ [143]; Andrew Gibson, ‘“Strangers in my House, Bad Manners to Them!”: England in “Circe”’ [179]; Richard Brown, ‘“Everything” in “Circe”’ [222]; Katie Wales, ‘“Bloom Passes Through Several Walls”: The Stage Directions in “Circe”’ [241]; L. H. Platt, Appendix: ‘The Deliverer and Ulysses 15’ [277-80]. Publisher’s notice: claims the book is the outcome of 5 years work on the part of the London University Joyce Group.

John Harty, III, ed., James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: A Casebook (NY: Garland Press 1991), rep. edn. (London: Routledge, 2015), 234pp. CONTENTS: Acknowls. [xi]; Editor’s Note [xv]; Harty, Introduction [xviii]; Bernard Benstock, A Working Outline of Finnegans Wake [3]. Pt. 1: Assessments. David Hayman, Dreaming up the Wake [13]; Colin MacCabe, An Introduction to Finnegans Wake [23] Hugh Kenner, Shem the Textman [33] Sheldon Brivic, The Femasculine Obsubject: A Lacanian Reading of FW606-607 [45]; Bernard Benstock: Quinet in the Wake: The Proof or the Pudding [57]; Vincent Cheng, Finnegans Wake: All the World’s a Stage [69] John Gordon, The Convertshems of the Tchoose: Judaism and Jewishness in Finnegans Wake [85]; Albert Montesi, Joyce’s ‘Blue Guitar’: Wallace Stevens and Finnegans Wake [99]. Part II: Joyce’s Textual Self-Referentiality: Alan Loxterman, Every Man His Own God: From Ulysses to Finnegans Wake [115]; David Robinson, Joyce’s Nonce-Symbolic Calculus: A Finnegans Wake Trajectory [131]; Kimberly J. Devlin, The Female Word [141]. Part III: Performance: David Borodin, ‘Group drinkards maaks grope thinkards or how reads rotary’ (FW312.31) [151]; David Hayman, Notes for Staging Finnegans Wake [195]; Kit Basquin, Mary Ellen Bute’s Film Adaptation of Finnegans Wake [177]; Margaret Rodgers, Thoughts on Making Music from the Hundred-Letter Words in Finnegans Wake [189}. Index [199]. (Available in part at Google Books - online; accessed 02.12.2107 - see partial copy - infra.)

David Hayman & Sam Slote, eds., Genetic Studies in Joyce (Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi 1995), 279pp. CONTENTS: David Hayman, ‘Genetic Criticism and Joyce: An Introduction’; Geert Lernout, ‘Finnegans Wake Notebooks and Radical Philology’; Daniel Ferrer, ‘Reflections on a Discarded Set of Proofs’; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘Back to Beria! Genetic Joyce and Eco’s “Ideal Readers”’; Christopher Bjork, ‘“Sinted sageness”: Some Sources for Kevin in Finnegans Wake’; Sam Slote, ‘Wilde Thing: Concerning the Eccentricities of a Figure of Decadence in Finnegans Wake’; David J. Califf, ‘Clones and Mutations: A Genetic Look at “Dave the dancekerl”’; Beryl Schlossman, ‘Tristan and Isolde or the Triangles of Desire: Jealousy, Eroticism and Poetics’; Jed Deppman, ‘Hallow’d Chronickles and Exploytes of King Rodericke O’Conor from Joyce’s Earliest Draftes to the End of Causal Historie’; Bill Cadbury, ‘Development of the “eye, ear, nose and throat witness” Testimony in I.4’; David Hayman, ‘To Make a List: Two Preparatory Puzzles on the Threshold of Book III’.

John Bishop, Joyce’s Book of the Dark: “Finnegans Wake” (Wisconsin UP 1986, 1995), 448pp. CONTENTS: Maps and Figures [ix]; Abbrevs. [xi]; Etymologies [xiii]; Acknowledgements [xv]; An Introduction: On Obscurity [3]; 1. ‘Reading the Evening World”; 2. Nothing in Particular: On English Obliterature; 3. “Finnegan”; 4. Inside the Coffin: Finnegans Wake and the Egyptian Book of the Dead [86]; 5. The Identity of the Dreamer [126]; 6. Nocturnal Geography: 7. How to Take “Polar Bearings” [146]; Vico’s “Night of Darkness”; 8. “Anna Livia Plurabelle”; [see extract].

Mark A. Wollaeger, Victor Luftig & Robert E. Spoo, eds., Joyce and the Subject of History (Michigan UP 1996), vi, 248pp. CONTENTS: Garry Leonard, ‘The History of Now: Commodity Culture and Everyday Life in Joyce’; R. Brandon Kershner, ‘History as Nightmare: Joyce’s Portrait to Christy Brown’; Fritz Senn, ‘History as Text in Reverse’; Joseph Valente, ‘James Joyce and the Cosmopolitan Sublime’; Wollaeger, ‘Reading Ulysses: Agency, Ideology, and the Novel’; Robert Spoo, ‘“Nestor” and the Nightmare: The Presence of the Great War in Ulysses’; Daniel Moshenberg, ‘What Shouts in the Street: 1904, 1922, 1990-93’; Victor Luftig, ‘Literary tourism and Dublin’s Joyce’; Vicki Mahaffey, ‘“Fantastic histories”: Nomadology and Female Piracy in Finnegans Wake’; Margot Norris, The Critical History of Finnegans Wake and the Finnegans Wake of historical criticism’; Cheryl Herr, Ireland from the Outside’; Robert Spoo, ‘Bibliography of Criticism on Joyce and History’.

R. B. Kershner, ed., Joyce and Popular Culture [Florida James Joyce Ser.] (Florida UP 1996), 223pp., ill. CONTENTS: Part 1 - Derek Attridge, ‘Theoretical Approaches: Theoretical Approaches to Popular Culture’; David Glover, ‘A Tale of “Unwashed Joyceans” - James Joyce, Popular Culture and Popular Theory’; Michael Walsh, ‘A(dorna) to Z(izek) - From the Culture Industry to the Joyce Industry, and Beyond. Part 2 - Chester G. Anderson, ‘Popular Sources and Paradigms: Should Boys Have Sweethearts?’; Michael H. Begnal, ‘Molly Bloom and Lady Hester Stanhope’; Stephen Watt, ‘“Nothing for a Woman in That” - James Lowebirch and Masochistic Fantasy in Ulysses’; David Hayman, ‘Dr. J. Collins Looks at J.J. - The Invention of a Shaun. Part 3 - Zack Bowen, ‘The Context of Culture: Wilde About Joyce’; Thomas Jackson Rice, ‘The (Tom) Swiftean Comedy of “Scylla and Charybdis”’; Garry M. Leonard, ‘Advertising and Religion in James Joyce’s Fiction - The New (Improved) Testament’; Donald Theall, ‘Joyce’s Techno-Poetics of Artifice - Machines, Media, Memory and Modes of Communication in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Part 4 - Helene Meyers, ‘Joyce in Popular Culture: Appropriating the Master Appropriator - “The James Joyce Murder” as Feminist Critique’; Adrian Peever’; ‘James Joyce as Woman - Fionnula Flanagan, Joyce and Film, Richard Brown, ‘Marilyn Monroe Reading Ulysses - Goddess or Postcultural Cyborg?, Vincent J. Cheng, ‘The Joycean Unconscious, or Getting Respect in the Real World.

Andrew Gibson, ed., Joyce’s “Ithaca” [European Readings] (Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi 1996), 281pp. CONTENTS: Bibliographical Note [1]; Andrew Gibson, Introducton [3]; Aesthetics - Fritz Senn, “Ithaca”: A Portrait of the Chapter as a Long List [31]; Antonia Fritz, Oviditties in “Ithaca” [77]. Politics - L. H. Platt, “If Brian Boru Could But Come Back and See Old Dublin Now”: Materialism, the National Culture and Ulysses 17 [105]; Andrew Gibson, “An Aberration of the Light of Reason”: Science and Cultural Politicsl in “Ithaca” [133]. Economics - Richard Brown, Returning to the Economic in “Ithaca” [177]; “from the House of Bondage to the Wilderness of Inhabitation”: The Domestic Economies of “Ithaca” [199]. Propaedeutics - Robert Hampson, “Allowing for Possible Error”: Education and Cathecism in “Ithaca” [299] (Available in part at Google Books - online.)

Jolanta W. Wawrzycka & Marlena G. Corcoran, eds., Gender in Joyce [Florida James Joyce Ser.] (1997), CONTENTS. Foreword [vii]; Preface [ix]; Margot Norris, ‘Introduction: Joyce’s “Mamfesta”: Mater and Material, Text and Textile’ [1]; Susan Sutliff Brown, ‘The Joyce Brothers in Drag: Fraternal Incest in Ulysses’ [8]; Mark Osteen, ‘Female Property: Women and Gift Exchange in Ulysses’ [29]; Lesley Higgins, ‘“Lovely Seaside Girls” or “Sweet Murderers of Men”? Fatal Women in Ulysses’ [47]; Martha Fodaski Black ‘S/He-Male Voices in Ulysses: Counterpointing the “New Womanly Man”’ [62]; Heyward Ehrlich, ‘Socialism, Gender and Imagery in Dubliners’ [82]; Mary Lowe-Evans, ‘Joyce and the Myth of the Mediatrix’ [191]; Jean Kimball, ‘Eros and Logos in Ulysses: A Jungian Pattern’ [112]; Garry Leonard, ‘The Masquerade of Gender: Mrs. Kearney and the “Moral Umbrella” of Mr. O’Madden Burke’ [133]; Ewa Ziarek, ‘“Circe”: Joyce’s Argumentum ad Feminam’ [150]; Margaret Mills Harper, ‘Fabric and Fame in the Odyssey and “Penelope”’ [170]; Contribs. [189]; index. [191].

Matthew J. C. Hodgart & Ruth Bauerle, Joyce’s Grand Operoar: Opera in Finnegans Wake (Illinois UP 1997), 341pp. CONTENTS: ‘Rich inheritance from a bankrupt; ‘Opera geography’; ‘Which brilliant career?’; ‘Two Shems and two Shauns’; ‘Chapelizod’s opera house’; ‘Page/line list of opera allusions in Finnegans Wake’; ‘Alphabetical list of composers, and their operatic works, librettists, designers, critics and conductors in Finnegans Wake’; ‘Finding list of opera and aria titles and opera characters in Finnegans Wake’; ‘Opera singers in Finnegans Wake’.

Vincent J. Cheng, Kimberly J. Devlin & Margot Norris, eds., Joycean Cultures/Culturing Joyces [transactions of conference at Univ. of California] (Delaware UP; AUP 1998), 294pp. CONTENTS: Abbreviations [7]; Acknowledgments [9]; Introduction [11]; Christine Van Boheemen ‘Joyce’s Sublime Body: Trauma, Textuality, and Subjectivity’ [23; infra]; Clara D. McLean, ‘Wasted Words: The Body Language of Joyce’s “Nausicaa”’ [44; infra]; Harly Ramsey, ‘Mourning, Melancholia, and the Maternal Body: Cultural Constructions of Bereavement in Ulysses’ [59]; Bonnie Kime Scott, ‘“The Young Girl,” Jane Heap, and Trials of Gender in Ulysses’ [78]; Carol Loeb Shloss, ‘Finnegans Wake and the Daughter’s Fate’ [95]; Susan Stanford Friedman, ‘Reading Joyce: Icon of Modernity? Champion of Alterity? Ventriloquist of Otherness?’ [113]; John Whittier-Ferguson, ‘Embattled Indifference: Politics on the Galleys of Herbert Gorman’s James Joyce’ [134]; R. B. Kershner, ‘The Culture of Ulysses’ [149]; Catherine Whitley, ‘The Politics of Representation in Finnegans Wake’s “Ballad”’ [163]; Erika Anne Flesher, ‘“I am getting on nicely in the dark”: Picturing the Blind Spot in Illustrations for Ulysses’ [177]; Irene A. Martyniuk, ‘Illustrating Ulysses, Illustrating Joyce’ [203]; Cheryl Temple Herr, ‘The Silence of the Hares: Peripherality in Ireland and in Joyce’ [216]; Benjamin Harder, ‘Stephen’s Prop: Aspects of the Ashplant in Portrait and Ulysses’ [241]; Mark Osteen, ‘A High Grade Ha: The “Politicoecomedy” of Headwear in Ulysses’ [253]; Contributors [284]; Index [287]. (See also general notes, infra.)

Joseph Valente, ed., Quare Joyce (Michigan UP 1998; pbk. 2000), x, 297pp. CONTENTS: Joseph Valente, ‘Joyce’s (sexual) choices: a historical overview’ [1]; Margot Norris, ‘Walk on the Wild(e) side: the doubled reading of “An encounter”’ [19]; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘On Joycean and Wildean Sodomy’ [35]; RETHINKING THE CLOSET: Joseph Valente, ‘Thrilled by his Touch: the Aestheticizing of Homosexual Panic in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ [47]; Garry Leonard, ‘“The Nothing Place”: Secrets and Sexual Orientation in Joyce’ [7]; Jennifer Levine, ‘James Joyce, Tattoo Artist: Tracing the Outlines of Homosocial Desire’ [101]; Vicki Mahaffey, ‘Père-version and Im-mère-sion: Idealized Corruption in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The Picture of Dorian Gray’ [121]; Robert L. Caserio, ‘Casement, Joyce, and Pound: Some New Meanings of Treason’ [139]; Gregory Castle, ‘Confessing Oneself: Homoeros and Colonial Bildung in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ [157]; Colleen Lamos, ‘“A Faint Glimmer of Lesbianism” in Joyce’ [185]; Christy Burns, ‘In the Original Sinse: The Gay Cliché and Verbal Transgression in Finnegans Wake’ [201]; Marian Eide, ‘Beyond “Syphilisation”: Finnegans Wake, AIDS, and the Discourse of Contagion’ [225]; Tim Dean ‘“Paring His Fingernails”: Homosexuality and Joyce’s Impersonalist Aesthetic’, [241].; Christopher Lane, ‘The Vehicle of Vague Speech’ [273]; Contributors [291]; Name Index [293].

Len Platt, Joyce and the Anglo-Irish: A Study of Joyce and the Literary Revival [Costerus n.s., Vol. 119] (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1998), 249pp. CONTENTS: 1. Opening Encounters (A Historical Perspective); The Triestine Lectures; Naming the State in Dubliners; Portrait of the Artist. 2 - Usurper: The Buckeen and the Dogsbody: Aspects of History and Culture in “Telemachus”; Pisgah Sights: the National Culture and the Catholic Middle Class in “Aeolus”; ‘Normans, but bastard Normans’; Culture and Nationalism in “Scylla and Charybdis”; ‘Moving in Times of Yore’: Historiographies in “Wandering Rocks”. Corresponding with the Greeks (An Overview of Ulysses as an Irish Epic; Mr. Bloom. Pt. 4: Revivalism in Popular Culture: “Sirens and “Cyclops”; Pt. 5. “Circe” and the Irish Literary Theatre. 6: ‘Our Modern Babylon’; Modernity and the National Culture in “Eumaeus” and “Ithaca”. 7: Engendering Nation: Nationalism and Sexuality in “Nausicaa”, “Oxen of the Sun”, and “Penelope”.

Rosa M. Bollettieri Bosinelli & Harold F. Mosher, Jnr., eds., Rejoycing: New Readings of “Dubliners” (Kentucky UP 1998), xi, 268pp. - CONTENTS: Sonja Basić, ‘Book of many uncertainties: Joyce’s Dubliners’; Thomas Jackson Rice, ‘Geometry of meaning in Dubliners: a Euclidian approach’; Harold E. Mosher, Jr., ‘Clicheés and repetition in Dubliners: the example of “A Little Cloud”; Jolanta W. Wawrzycka, ‘Text at the crossroads: multilingual transformations of James Joyce’s Dubliners’; Trevor L. Williams, ‘No cheer for the grateful oppressed: ideology in James Joyce’s Dubliners’; Claire A Culleton, ‘Taking the biscuit: narrative cheekiness in Dubliners’; John Paul Riquelme, ‘Joyce’s “The Dead”: the dissolution of the self and the police’; Raffaella Baccolini, ‘She had become a memory: women as memory in James Joyce’s Dubliners’; Marlena G. Corcoran, ‘Language, character, and gender in the direct discourse of Dubliners’; David Leon Higdon, ‘Gendered discourse and the structure of Joyce’s “The Dead”’; Ulrich Schneider, ‘Title in Dubliners’; Michael Brian, ‘Very fine piece of writing: an etymological, Dantean, and gnostic reading of Joyce’s “Ivy day in the committee room”’; Lucia Boldrini, ‘Artist paring his quotations: aesthetic and ethical implication of the Dantean intertext in Dubliners’; Lucia Boldrini. Gnomon inverted’. [Available online .pdf; accessed 23.04.2021.]

Margot Norris, A Companion to James Joyce’s Ulysses: Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Perspectives [Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, ed. Ross C. Murfin] (Boston & NY: Bedford Books [St. Martin’s] 1998), xii, 255pp. [CONTENTS: Introduction; Biographical and Historical Contexts: A Critical History of Ulysses. Deconstruction and Ulysses; What is Deconstruction?; Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography. A Deconstruction Perspective - Jacques Derrida, ‘Ulysses Gramophone: Hear say yes in Joyce’; Reader-Response Criticism and Ulysses: What is Reader-Response Criticism? Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Reader-Response Perspective - Wolfgang Iser, ‘Patterns of Communication in Joyce’s Ulysses’. Feminist and Gender Criticism and Ulysses: What are Feminist and Gender Criticism? Feminist and Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography; A Gender Perspective: Vicki Mahaffey, ‘Ulysses and the End of Gender. Psychoanalytic Criticism and Ulysses: What is Psychoanalytic Criticism? Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Psychoanalytic Perspective: Kimberly J. Devlin. ‘I Saw that Picture Somewhere’: Tracking the Symptom of the Sisters of Lazarus’, Marxist Criticism and Ulysses - What is Marxist Criticism? Marxist Criticism - A Selected Bibliography. A Marxist Perspective: Patrick. McGee, ‘“Heavenly Bodies”: Ulysses and the Ethics of Marxism/ Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms; About the Contributors.]

Marilyn Reizbaum, James Joyce’s Judaic Other (Stanford UP 1999), x, 194pp. CONTENTS: 1. The Historical Context for Joyce”s “Other” and the Thematics of Jewishness; 2. A Nightmare of History: Ireland’s Jews and Joyce’s Texts; 3. A Poetics of Jewishness; 4. The Temptation of Circe; 5. A Pisgah Sight of the Promised Land; Appendix. Joyce’s Jewish-Related Materials. [See extract under Joyce, > Commentary - infra.]

Wim Tigges, ed., Moments of Moment: Aspects of the Literary Epiphany [Costerus Ser.] (Amsterdam/Atlanta Rodopi 1999), 496pp. - incls. Christine van Boheemen-Saaf, ‘Epiphany and Postcolonial Affect’; Dermot Kelly, ‘Joycean Epiphany in Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark’, &c.; others discussed incl. Wordsworth, Blake, Ann Radcliffe, George Moore, W. B. Yeaets, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Beckett, Proust, Larkin, Heaney and Stanley Kubrick - as well as Gothic fiction in general.

Michael Patrick Gillespie, ed., Joyce Through the Ages: A Nonlinear View (Florida UP 1999), 215pp. CONTENTS: Michael Patrick Gillespie, ‘James Joyce and the Consumption of History’; Jean Kimball, ‘Growing up Together: Joyce and Psychoanalysis, 1900-1922’; Peter Francis Mackey, ‘Chaos Theory and the Heroism of Leopold Bloom’; Roy Gottfried, ‘Adolescence, Humor, and Adolescent Humor: One Way of Carving a Turkey’; Pericles Lewis, ‘Conscience of the Race: The Nation as Church of the Modern Age’; Michael H. Begnal, ‘Stephen, Simon, and Eileen Vance: Autoeroticism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’; Tara Williams, ‘Polysymbolic Character: Irish and Jewish Folklore in the Apparition of Rudy’; Heyward Ehrlich, ‘Inventing Patrimony: Joyce, Mangan, and the Self-inventing Self’; Vivian Valvano Lynch, ‘Joyce Redux: Success and Failure as Three American Writers Evoke Joyce’; Sandra Manoogian Pearce, ‘Snow Through the Ages: Echoes of “The Dead” in O’Brien, Lavin, and O’Faolain’; John Gordon, ‘Joyce’s Hitler’.

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