Making Space in the Works of James Joyce

Valérie Bénéjam is Maître de Conférences in English literature at the Université de Nantes. She wrote her PhD under the supervision of Jean-Michel Rabaté at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, and has written numerous articles on Joyce. She is currently completing a book-length study of Ulysses entitled All About Molly, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation.John Bishop is Associate Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in 20th-century British and American literature. In addition to having written numerous articles on Joyce, he is the author of a study of Finnegans Wake that has become a classic of Joyce criticism, Joyce’s Book of the Dark (1986). He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation.

• Introduction: Making Space. Valérie Bénéjam 1. Space in Finnegans Wake: An Archaeology. John Bishop 2. Optical Space in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. André Topia 3. The Acoustic Space of Ulysses. Valérie Bénéjam 4. Text and the City: Joyce, Dublin and Colonial Modernity. Luke Gibbons 5. Gabriel’s Re-Mapping of Dublin: The Fabricated Cityscape of "The Dead". Liam Lanigan 6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Urban Planner: Plumbing Consciousness in Joyce’s Dublin. Michael Rubenstein 7. Disorienting Dublin. Eric Bulson 8. The Habitus of Language(s) in Finnegans Wake. Laurent Milesi 9. Joyce the Post. David Spurr 10. Mapping the ‘Call from Afar’: The Echo of Motifs in James Joyce’s Literary Landscape. Katherine O’Callaghan 11.The Thomistic Representation of Dublin in Ulysses. Sam Slote 12. Writing Space. Daniel Ferrer

"Making Space in the Works of James Joyce is every bit as assertive and sure-footed as its title. Those with interest in Joyce's numerous geographies will want to make a space for it on their shelf."- James Joyce Literary Supplement