... such as Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf were crafting characters intimately connected by the prosody of voice, music, and the soundscape. As headphones piped nonlocal sounds into a listener’s headspace, Jean Rhys and James Joyce were creating interior monologues that were shaped by cosmopolitan and bohemian...

... in outwardly radiating circles, as dictated by the principle of ascending difficulty, beginning with the easiest sections and working out to the hardest ones. This “spiral reading” path then turns out to track very closely the process of Joyce’s compositional process, and so gives us an insight into Joyce’s...

...Modernism grew up with the gramophone and came to fear its mechanization as a threat to the lost aurality of a pre-war world. For many modernists, Joyce among them, the gramophone brought death, as the opposite of what they were writing for and a direct threat to their writing lives. Joyce’s...

...The author draws from his position as editor of the Florida James Joyce Series to present twelve different new approaches to Joyce study. The book returns home by comparing the centrifugal method (departure) with the centripetal theme (return): Joyce’s departures are a cycle of fifths, which...

...“The London Connection” draws on the “Book of Days” (1906–1909), Stanislaus Joyce’s unpublished diary from the time he lived together with Joyce in Trieste. This little-studied diary offers valuable evidence of Joyce’s aspirations and strategies to publish and promote Dubliners...

...“James Joyce and the British Avant-Garde” focuses on Joyce’s interaction with Cambridge’s intellectual milieu, where new experiments in literature were forcefully debated in the magazine Experiment (1928–31), founded and run by William Empson and Jacob Bronowski. I...

...In “Ithaca,” Joyce rejected “literature” in a different way: by pretending to use the “neutral” language of the sciences. By the close of “Eumaeus,” he had taken both his indictment of the “anonymous voice of culture” and his use of it as far as it could go in Ulysses. “Ithaca...

...“Eumaeus' Redux,” a second examination of the “Eumaeus” chapter of Ulysses produced a different, though not incompatible, reading from the one in The Odyssey of Style. Presented as a plenary talk at the International James Joyce Symposium in Monaco in 1990...

...The three entities that Joyce’s revolutionary style has been interpreted as “speaking for” are a colonized Ireland, the soul of the morally independent artist, and woman. But there are also tensions between these three trajectories of emerging voice that cannot be resolved by interpreting Joyce’s...

...-language translator of Ulysses. Marechal takes from Joyce’s novel, and reworks in his Don Ecuménico, Bloom’s intertextual antecedents, in particular the English morality play Everyman and Dante’s version of the classical Ulysses in Canto 26 of the Inferno...

...This chapter points out that certain modernist texts are characterized by what could be called cryptopoiesis: texts endowed with embedded forms not easily observable on a first reading nor even a close second reading. It argues that Joyce’s use of cryptopoiesis in Ulysses elicits...

...Reading postcolonial Joyce through Altman’s presence in his works. Backgrounds on Dubliners’ story “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” and Joyce’s interest in Triestine Jewry during its composition. Reading Altman’s shadow as absent-center of the story’s textual allusions. Altman...

...Beating the Bounds examines the role of boundaries and limits in James Joyce’s later works, primarily Finnegans Wake but also Ulysses and other texts. Building on the ideas of philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Giordano Bruno, and scholar Fritz Senn, Roy Benjamin explains...

... is officially given later), where she causes something of a kerfuffle by refusing to publish James Joyce's Finnegans Wake unless she can cut it. Joyce refuses. Eventually, Thayer's mother goes to Vienna and brings her son back home. “Casual Comment” Dial section The Dial Keyserling Herman...

...Rich Cole's essay reads laws of minority rights in Europe to challenge the tendency for cultural historians to understand the human rights revolution as beginning in the 1940s with signing of the the UN Charter. James Joyce's Cyclops, for instance, is written in such a way that it intersperses...

...This essay analyzes scenes from Ulyssesalongside the legal regimes governing tenancy in 1904 Ireland. Summarizing the historical conflict between Brehon law and colonial versions of tenancy, Gibson shows James Joyce's ambivalence about both, and argues that Ulysses...

...The essay reads James Joyce through the prism of trademark registration law as it began in the late 1800s and evolved during Joyce's life and career. It argues that Joyce, and modernist culture more broadly, share concerns that underlie the legal regime governing trademark. Trademark is based...

...This essay critiques John Quinn—pillorying the lawyer's failed defense of Ulysses after U.S. Customs Agents confiscated the book—and lauds the work of the judges Augustus Hand and John Woolsey in the successful trials of James Joyce’s Ulysses's of the next decade...

...Departing from critical predecessors, this essay treats Ulysses as the protagonist of sorts in James Joyce's battles against suppression. The essays shows that the material book "stood accused as a sort of dangerous instrumentality, a res or thing subject...

... of the Artist as a Young Man Morris Adelaide Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce Soja Edward Brooker Peter Geomodernisms Doyle and Winkiel Lefebvre Henri Massey Doreen Philosophical miserabilism Thacker Andrew Bowman Isaiah Harvey David Jameson Fredric Lamarckian ideas on adaptation...