Sebastian D. G. Knowles is professor emeritus of English at Ohio State University.Geert Lernout is professor emeritus at the University of Antwerp. He is general editor of European Joyce Studies and Genetic Joyce Studies.John McCourt is codirector of the University of Trieste’s Trieste Joyce School. He is the author of The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste, 1904–1920.Contributors: Hugo Azerad Zack Bowen Austin Briggs Brian G. Caraher Nick De Marco Michael Groden Arye Kendi Hugh Kenner Borislav Knezevic Sebastian D. G. Knowles Ira B. Nadel Margot Norris Vike Martina Plock Richard Robinson Andre Topia Carla Marengo Vaglio Dirk Van Hulle

• List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Sebastian D. G. KnowlesI. Reading Joyce: Text, Meaning, and Language1. The National Library of Ireland’s New Joyce Manuscripts Michael Groden2. Risky Reading of Risky Writing Margot Norris3. Plato, Homer, and Joyce: Involving Orientalism, a Smidgeon of Smut, and a Pinch of Perverse Egotism Zack BowenII. Text: Genetic Readings4. Narrative as Potential: The Virus and the Program Andre Topia5. “Oxen of the Sun” and the Gestation of the Word Nick De Marco6. Dame Plurabelle: Joyce’s Art of Decomposition and Recombination Dirk Van Hulle7. “Negative Utopia” in James Joyce, Walter Benjamin, and Ernst Bloch Hugo AzeradIII. Meaning: Political Readings8. Why Does Gerty Limp? Vike Martina Plock9. A “ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry”: Reading Nightmares of Orientalist History in Joyce’s Ulysses Brian G. Caraher10. “Nothing doing. Still an idea behind it”: The Restoration of Zion Arye Kendi11. Is There a Class to Renounce in This Text? Gentlemanly Ideology in A Portrait of the Artist Borislav Knezevic12. Buckley in a General Russia: Finnegans Wake and Political Space Richard RobinsonIV. Language: Joycean Readings13. Jim the Comedian Hugh Kenner14. Breakfast at 7 Eccles Street: Oeufs Sacher-Masoch? Austin Briggs15. Molly’s Mediterranean Meals and Other Joycean Cuisines: An Essay with Recipes Ira B. Nadel16. Cinematic Joyce: Mediterranean Joyce Carla Marengo VaglioList of ContributorsIndex

“This attractive book . . . presents a set of substantial readings.”—Modern Language Review“Add[s] yet another celebratory chord to the polyphony of Joycean scholarship.”—English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920