Joyce in Trieste

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 Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Sebastian D. G. Knowles I. Reading Joyce: Text, Meaning, and Language 1. The National Library of Ireland's New Joyce Manuscripts Michael Groden 2. Risky Reading of Risky Writing Margot Norris 3. Plato, Homer, and Joyce: Involving Orientalism, a Smidgeon of Smut, and a Pinch of Perverse Egotism Zack Bowen II. Text: Genetic Readings 4. Narrative as Potential: The Virus and the Program Andre Topia 5. "Oxen of the Sun" and the Gestation of the Word Nick De Marco 6. Dame Plurabelle: Joyce's Art of Decomposition and Recombination Dirk Van Hulle 7. "Negative Utopia" in James Joyce, Walter Benjamin, and Ernst Bloch Hugo Azerad III. Meaning: Political Readings 8. Why Does Gerty Limp? Vike Martina Plock 9. A "ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry": Reading Nightmares of Orientalist History in Joyce's Ulysses Brian G. Caraher 10. "Nothing doing. Still an idea behind it": The Restoration of Zion Arye Kendi 11. Is There a Class to Renounce in This Text? Gentlemanly Ideology in A Portrait of the Artist Borislav Knezevic 12. Buckley in a General Russia: Finnegans Wake and Political Space Richard Robinson IV. Language: Joycean Readings 13. Jim the Comedian Hugh Kenner 14. Breakfast at 7 Eccles Street: Oeufs Sacher-Masoch? Austin Briggs 15. Molly's Mediterranean Meals and Other Joycean Cuisines: An Essay with Recipes Ira B. Nadel 16. Cinematic Joyce: Mediterranean Joyce Carla Marengo Vaglio List of Contributors Index

"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