Cambridge Companion to James Joyce

"An indispensable scholarly guide to one of the world's most important and influential writers. Fifteen chapters, each written by a leading James Joyce scholar, address each of Joyce's major works, key contexts and important themes. This is both an accessible introduction for students and a lively resource for teachers and researchers"-- Provided by publisher.

List of contents

Introduction: placing Joyce John Nash; 1. Dubliners: narration, church and revival John Nash; 2. Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: recursion, time, emergence and the nation John Paul Riquelme; 3. Ulysses: form of forms Scarlett Baron; 4. Reading Ulysses historically: modes and methods Andrew Gibson; 5. De-confusing confession at Finnegans Wake Finn Fordham; 6. Joyce's shorter works Vicki Mahaffey; 7. Joyce the Irishman Seamus Deane; 8. Joyce the European Jean-Michel Rabaté; 9. Joyce, colonialism, and nationalism Marjorie Howes; 10. Gender politics Marian Eide; 11. Sex and sexuality Katherine Mullin; 12. James Joyce and the everyday Sean Latham; 13. Joyce and nature Jim Fairhall; 14. Periodical publication and modernism: the case of Ulysses Clare Hutton; 15. Writing, reading, revising, editing, archiving: the sociology of Joyce's writing Dirk Van Hulle.

Product details

• Authors: John (Durham University) Nash
• Assisted by: John Nash (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.08.2025
• EAN: 9781009636391
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0963639-1
• No. of pages: 315
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; 20th Century, Ireland, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Literary companions, book reviews and guides