James Joyce and Modern Literature

Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field

• Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1. Joyce’s ‘Dubliners’ and the futility of modernism 2. Two More Gallants 3. ‘Planetary music’: James Joyce and the Romantic example 4. Joyce and the displaced author 5. Leaving the Island 6. Nightmares of history: James Joyce and the phenomenon of Anglo-Irish literature 7. Martello 8. ‘Ulysses’, modernism, and Marxist criticism 9. ‘Ulysses’ in history 10. Reflections on Eumaeus: Ways of error and glory in ‘Ulysses’ 11. Joyce and literary tradition: Language living, dead, and resurrected, from Genesis to Guinnesses 12. Reading ‘Finnegans Wake’ 13. James Joyce and Hugh MacDiarmid; Index

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