Cognitive Joyce

Sylvain Belluc is Maître de Conférences in English literature at the Université de Nîmes/Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (EMMA), France. The recipient of several research scholarships, he is the author of numerous articles on Joyce, Conrad, linguistics, translation, and intertextuality.Valérie Bénéjam is Maître de Conférences in English literature at the Université de Nantes, France. She has written numerous articles on Joyce, Flaubert and Shakespeare, co-edited Making Space in the Works of James Joyce (with John Bishop, 2011), and is currently working on Joyce and drama.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Knowledge and Identity in Joyce.- 3 Intentionality and Epiphany: Husserl, Joyce and the Problem of Access.- 4 Authors' Libraries and the Extended Mind: The Case of Joyce's Books.- 5 Characters' Lapses and Language's Past: Etymology as Cognitive Tool in Joyce's Fiction.- 6 Joyce and Hypnagogia.- 7 Spatialized Thought: Waiting as Cognitive State in Dubliners.- 8 The Invention of Dublin as “Naissance de la Clinique”: Cognition and Pathology in Dubliners.- 9 Cognition as Drama: Stephen Dedalus's Mental Workshop in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.- 10 Joycean Text / Empathic Reader: A Modest Contribution to Literary Neuroaesthetics.- 11 Configuring Cognitive Architecture: Mind-Reading and Meta-Representations in Ulysses.- 12 Hallucination and the Text: “Circe” between Narrative, Epistemology and Neurosciences.- 13 “[The] Buzz in His Braintree, the Tic of HisConscience”: Consciousness, Language and the Brain in Finnegans Wake.

“Cognitive Joyce, with its range of topics, approaches, and theorists, feels like what its editors claim it to be: an introduction, of sorts, to something diverse and new.” (Royal Holloway, James Joyce Literary Supplement, Vol. 33 (2), 2019)