James Joyce Criticism - Tables of Contents (2): 1980-1999

Colin MacCabe, ed., James Joyce: New Perspectives (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1982), 198pp. CONTENTS: Fritz Senn, ‘Righting Ulysses’ [3]; MacCabe, ‘An Introduction to Finnegans Wake’ [29; extract]; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘Silence in Dubliners’ [45]; Maud Ellmann, ‘Polytropic Man: Paternity, Identity, and Naming in The Odyssey and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ [73]; Raymond Williams, ‘Exiles’ [105]; MacCabe, ‘The Voice of Esau: Stephen in the Library’ [111]; Stephen Heath, ‘Joyce in Language’ [129]; Patrick Parrinder, ‘The Strange Necessity: James Joyce’s Rejection in England (1914-30)’ [151]; Seamus Deane, ‘Joyce and Nationalism’ [168]; Maria Jolas, ‘The Joyce I Knew and the Women around Him’ [184]. Index, 195ff.

Suheil Badi Bushrui & Bernard Benstock, eds., James Joyce: An International Perspective: Centenary Essays in Honour of the late Sir Desmond Cochrane (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe [16 June] 1982), 301pp. CONTENTS: ‘A Message from Samuel Beckett [vii]; ‘In Memoriam Sir Desmond Cochrane 1918-1979’ [ix]; Foreword: Richard Ellmann, ‘Joyce After a Hundred Years’ [xi]; Acknowledgements [xiii]; Suheil Badi Bushrui & Bernard Benstock, ‘Introduction’ [1]; Geróid Ó Clérigh, ‘James Joyce: Nó Séamas Seoighe’ [9], poem; Terence Brown, ‘Dublin of Dubliners’ [11]; Charles Rossman, ‘The Reader’s Role in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ [19]; Dominic Daniel, ‘Exiles: A Moral Statement’ [38]; Bernard Benstock, ‘On the Nature of Evidence in Ulysses’ [46]; Vivian Mercier, ‘John Eglinton as Socrates: A Study of “Scylla and Charybdis”’ [65]; John Paul Riquelme, ‘Twists of the Teller’s Tale: Finnegans Wake’ [82]; Francis Warner, ‘The Poetry of James Joyce’ [115]; John Montague, ‘James Joyce’ [128], poem; David Norris, ‘A Turnip for the Books: James Joyce, a Centenary Tribute’ [129]; Augustine Martin, ‘Sin and Secrecy in Joyce’s Fiction’ [143]; Declan Kiberd, ‘The Vulgarity of Heroics: Joyce’s Ulysses’ [156]; Suzanne Brown, ‘Night Fox: For James Joyce’ [169]; Phillip Herring, ‘Joyce and Rimbaud: An Introductory Essay’ [170]; Ann Saddlemyer, ‘James Joyce and the Irish Dramatic Movement’ [190]; Suheil Bushrui, ‘The Wanderer: For James Joyce’ [213]; Paul van Caspel, ‘Joyce Studies in the Netherlands’ [215]; Paul & Sylvia Botheroyd, ‘Joyce in Germany and Switzerland’ [222]; Suheil Bushrui, ‘Joyce in the Arab World’ [232]; Thomas F. Staley, ‘Following Ariadne’s String: Tracing Joyce Scholarship into the Eighties’ [250]; Suheil Bushrui, ‘Chronology’ [278]; Contributors [287]; Index [293-301].

Suzette Henke & Elaine Unkeless, eds., Women in Joyce (Brighton: Harvester 1982), 216pp. CONTENTS: Robert Boyle, ‘ The Woman Hidden in James Joyce’s Chamber Music’; Florence L. Walzl, ‘Dubliners’; Bonnie Kime Scott, ‘Emma Clery in Stephen Hero’; Suzette Henke, ‘Stephen Dedalus and Women’; Ruth Bauerle, ‘Bertha’s role in Exiles’; Suzette Henke, ‘Gerty MacDowell’; Elaine Unkeless, ‘The Conventional Molly Bloom’; Shari Benstock, ‘The Genuine Christine’; Margot Norris, ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’.

E. L. Epstein, ed., A Starchamber Quiry: A James Joyce Centennial Volume 1882-1982, with an afterword by Clive Hart (London: Methuen 1982; rep. 1983), 164pp. James Joyce and His Civilisation [ix]; Hugh Kenner, ‘Notes towards an Anatomy of “Modernism”’ [3]; James Joyce and His Orders [43]; Fritz Senn, ‘Weaving, unweaving’ [45]; James Joyce and the body [71]; E. L. Epstein, ‘James Joyce and the body’ [73]; James Joyce and the Soul [107]; Robert Boyle, SJ, ‘Worshipper of the Word: James Joyce and the Trinity’ [109]; James Joyce and his Readers [153]; Clive Hart: ‘Afterword: Reading Finnegans Wake’ [155]. Epigraph: ‘These four claymen clomb together to hold their sworn starchamber quiry on him. For he was ever their quarrel, the way they would see themselves.’ (FW475.18-20.)

W. J. McCormack & Alaistair Stead, James Joyce and Modernism [Joyce conference, Leeds 1982] (London: Routledge 1982), 222pp. [ded. “To Lucia Joyce”]. Contents: William A. Johnsen, ‘James Joyce’s Dubliners and the Futility of Modernism’ [1]; William Trevor, ‘Two More Gallants’ [22]; Timothy Webb, “Planetary Music”: James Joyce and the Romantic Example’ [30]; Christopher Butler, ‘Joyce and the Displaced Author’ [56]; Seamus Heaney, “Leaving the Island”’ [74]; W. J. McCormack, ‘Nightmare of History: James Joyce and the Phenomenon of Anglo-Irish Literature’ [77]; Tom Paulin, ‘Martello’ [108]; Jeremy Hawthorn, ‘Ulysses, Modernism and Marxist Criticism’ [112]; Frederic Jameson, ‘Ulysses in History’ [126]; Alistair Stead, ‘Reflections on “Eumaeus”: Ways of Error and Glory in Ulysses’ [142]; Philip Brockbank, ‘Joyce and Literary Tradition: Language Living, Dead, and Resurrected, from Genesis to Guinnesses’ [166]; Pieter Bekker, ‘Reading Finnegans Wake’ [185]; Edwin Morgan, ‘James Joyce and Hugh MacDiarmid’ [202]; Index’ [218].

Derek Attridge & Daniel Ferrer, eds., Post-structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French (Cambridge UP 1984), 162pp. CONTENTS: Attridge & Ferrer, Introduction: ‘Highly continental evenements’ [1]; Helene Cixous, ‘Joyce: The (r)use of writing’ [15; extract]; Stephen Heath, ‘Ambiviolences: Notes for reading Joyce’ [31]; Jacques Aubert, ‘riverun’ [69]; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘Lapsus ex machine’ [79]; André Topia, ‘The Matrix and the echo: Intertextuality in Ulysses’ [103]; Daniel Ferrer, ‘“Circe”: regret and regression’ [127], Jacques Derrida, ‘Two words for Joyce’ [145-59]. Contributors [161]. Bibl. - origins of the texts: Hélène Cixous, ‘Joyce, la ruse de l’écriture’, in Poétique, 4 (1970), pp.419-32; rep. in Prénoms de personne (Paris: Editions du Seuil 1974); Stephen Heath, ‘Ambiviolences: Notes pour la lecture de Joyce’, in Tel Quel, 50 (1972), pp.22-43, and Do., 51 (1972), pp.64-76; Jacques Aubert, ‘Riverrun’, in Change, 11 (1972), pp.120-30; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘Lapsus ex machina’, in Poétique, 26 (1976), pp.152-72; André Topia, ‘Contrepoints joyciens’, in Poétique, 27 (1976), pp.351-71; Daniel Ferrer, ‘Circé, ou les regrès éternels’ [1975], to be published in Les Cahiers de l’Herne [c.1984]; Jacques Derrida, ‘Deux mots pour Joyce’ [paper given at the Centre Georges Pompidou, 1982].

Richard Brown, James Joyce and Sexuality (Cambridge UP 1985; reps. 1989, 1990), vii, 224pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; 1. Love and marriage; 2. Emissio inter vas naturale; 3. Women; 4. Sexual reality; Notes; Bibliography; Index. [based on “The Sexual Pretext: An Examination of Sexual Themes in Joyce’s Reading and the Engagement of his Writings in Contemporary Discussions of Sexuality”, PhD London Univ. 1981.]

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Heyward Ehrlich, ed., Light Rays: James Joyce and Modernism (NY: New Horizon 1984), 224pp. CONTENTS: [Prologue]; Richard Ellmann, ‘Two perspectives on Joyce’; [Introduction]; Heyward Ehrlich, ‘James Joyce’s Light Rays’; Part 1: Popular Culture]; Leslie Fieldler, ‘To Whom does Joyce Belong?’; Ruby, ‘Ulysses as Parody, Pop and Porn’; Zack Bowen, ‘Joyce and the Modern Coalescence’; [Part 2: Experimental Literature]; Hugh Kenner, ‘Who’s he when he’s at home?’; Fritz Senn, ‘Remodeling Homer’; Ihab Hassan, ‘Finnegan’s Wake and Postmodern Imagination’; [Part 3: The New Sexuality]; Morris Beja, ‘The Joyce of Sex: Sexual Relations in Ulysses’; Robert Boyle, ‘Joyce’s Consubstantiality: Woman as Creator’; [Part 4: Contemporary philosophy]; Morton P. Levitt, ‘The Modernist Age: The Age of James Joyce’; Margot Norris, ‘From The Decentered Universe of Finnegan’s Wake’; [Part 5: Neoteric Psychology]; Norman O. Brown, ‘Closing Time: An Interlude of Farce’; [Part 6; Avant Garde Music]; John Cage, ‘Writing for the Second Time through Finnegan’s Wake’; John Cage, ‘From The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs’; Pierre Boulez, ‘From Third sonata and Structures II’; [Part 7: Abstract Art]; Shari Benstock, ‘The Double Image of Modernism: Matisse’s Etchings for Ulysses’; Evan Firestone, ‘James Joyce and the First Generation New York School’; Ad Reinhardt, ‘A Portend of the Artist as a Jhung Mandala.’

Zack Bowen & James F. Carens, eds., A Companion to Joyce Studies (Westport, Conn: Greenwood 1984), 818pp. CONTENTS: Abbreviations [ix]; Introduction [xi]; Edmund L. Epstein, ‘James Augustine Aloysius Joyce’ [3]; Mary T. Reynolds, ‘Joyce as a Letter Writer’ [39]; Michael Groden, ‘A Textual and Publishing History’ [71]; Chester G. Anderson, ‘Joyce’s Verses’ [129]; Florence L. Walzl, ‘Dubliners’ [157]; Thomas E. Connolly, ‘Stephen Hero’ [229]; Bernard Benstock, ‘Exiles’ [361]; Vicki Mahaffey, ‘Giacomo Joyce’ [387]; Zack Bowen, ‘Ulysses’ [421]; Patrick A. McCarthy, ‘The Structures and Meanings of Finnegans Wake’ [559]; Michael H. Bengal, ‘The Language of Finnegans Wake’ [633]; Barbara DiBernard, ‘Technique in Finnegans Wake’ [647]; Robert Scholes & Marlena G. Corcoran, ‘The Aesthetic Theory and the Critical Writings’ [689]; Morris Beja, ‘Epiphany and the Epiphanies’ [707]; Sidney Feshbach & William Herman, ‘The History of Joyce Criticism and Scholarship’ [727]; Appendix 1; Edmund L. Epstein, ‘Joyce’s Names’ [781]; Appendix 2: Michael Groden, ‘Library Collections of Joyce Manuscripts’ [783]; Contributors [787]; Index [791-818].

Bernard Benstock, ed., Critical Essays on James Joyce (Boston: G. K. Hall 1985), 236pp. CONTENTS: Ezra Pound, ‘Dubliners and Mr. James Joyce’; H. G. Wells, ‘James Joyce’; T. S. Eliot, ‘Ulysses, Order, and Myth’ [1923]; Edmund Wilson, ‘The Dream of H.C. Earwicker’; Samuel Beckett, ‘Dante...Bruno, Vico...Joyce’; Stuart Gilbert, ‘The Rhythm of Ulysses’; Frank Budgen, ‘Joyce’s Chapters of Going Forth by Day’; Richard M. Kain, ‘Talking about Injustice: James Joyce in the Modern World’; Richard Ellmann, ‘The Backgrounds of “The Dead”’; Hugh Kenner, ‘The Cubist Portrait’; Clive Hart, ‘The Elephant in the Belly: Exegesis of Finnegans Wake’; Fritz Senn, ‘Book of Many Turns’; Robert Boyle, S.J., ‘Miracle in Black Ink: A Glance of Joyce’s Use of his Eucharistic Image’; Bernard Benstock, ‘“The Dead”: A Cold Coming’; David Hayman, ‘Nodality and the Infra-structure of Finnegans Wake’; Thomas F. Staley, ‘A Beginning: Signification, Story, and Discourse in Joyce’s “The Sisters”’; Wolfgang Iser, ‘Doing Things in Style: An Interpretation of “The Oxen of the Sun” in James Joyce’s Ulysses’; Margot C. Norris, ‘The Consequences of Deconstruction: A Technical Perspective of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake’; Shari Benstock, ‘Nightletters: Woman’s Writing in the Wake’.

Harold Bloom, ed., James Joyce: Modern Critical Views (NY: Chelsea House 1986), x, 293pp. CONTENTS: Samuel Beckett ‘Dante ... Bruno, Vico .. Joyce ‘; S. L. Goldberg, ‘Homer and the nightmare of history’; Richard Ellmann, ‘Bloom unbound’; Anthony Burgess, ‘The Dublin sound’; Harry Levin, ‘ Ulysses in manuscript’; Richard Ellmann, ‘The consciousness of Joyce’; Hugh Kenner, ‘Joyce’s voices’; Jennifer Schiffer Levine, ‘Originality and repetition in Finnegans wake and Ulysses’; Deborah Pope, ‘The misprision of vision: A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’-; Mary T. Reyonlds, ‘Paternal figures and paternity themes’; Karen Lawrence, ‘“Eumaeus”: the way of all language ‘; Roland McHugh, ‘The Finnegans Wake experience: samples‘ Frederic Jameson, ‘Ulysses in history’; Raymond Williams, ‘-- Exiles’; Gabriele Schwab, ‘Mollyloquy’; Francis Warner, ‘The poetry of James Joyce’; William Empson, ‘-- Ulysses: Joyce’s intentions’; Daniel Ferrer, ‘’Circe,’ regret and regression’; Patrick Parrinder, ‘Dubliners’.

Morris Beja, Phillip Herring, Maurice Harmon, and David Norris, eds., James Joyce: The Centennial Symposium [Papers presented at Eighth International James Joyce Symposium (Illinois UP 1986), xv, 23pp. [contribs. William Chace, Seamus Deane, Karen Lawrence, Suzette Henke, Richard Pearce, Derek Attridge, David Seed, Maud Ellmann, Daniel Ferrer, André Topia, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Robert Young, Bernard Benstock, Carol Shloss, Beryl Schlossman, Margot Norris, Sheldon Brivic, Elliot B. Gose Jr., J. B. Lyons, Ann McCullough O.P., Hugh Kenner, A. Walton Litz.] partly available at Google Books - online].

Robert D. Newman & Weldon Thornton, eds., Joyce’s “Ulysses”: The Larger Perspective (Delaware UP; London: Assoc. UP 1987), 310pp. [contribs. Cheryl Herr, ‘Art, Life, Nature and Culture, Ulysses’ [19]; G. . J. Watson, ‘The Politics of Ulysses’ [39]; Patrick A. McCarthy, ‘Ulysses and the Printed Page’ [59]; Richard M. Kain ‘Fifty Years of Joyce: 1934-1984’ [74]; Karen Lawrence, ‘Paternity, the Legal Fiction’ [89]; John Henry Raleigh, ’Ulysses: Trinitarian and Catholic’ [98]; Michael Patrick Gillespie, ‘Redrawing the Artist as a Young Man’ [123]; James Maddox, ‘Mockery in Ulysses’ [141]; Zack Bowen, ‘Ulysses as a Comic Novel’ [157]; Robert D. Newman, ‘Transformatio Coniunctionis: Alchemy in Ulysses’ [168]; Sheldon Brivic, ‘The Other Ulysses’ [187]; Elliot Gose, ‘The Coincidence of Contraries as Theme and Technique in Ulysses’ [213]; Michael H. Begnal, ‘Art and History: Stephen’s Mirror and Parnell’s Silk Hat’ [233]; Weldon Thornton, ‘Voices and Values in Ulysses’ [244]; Stanley Sultan, ‘The Adventures of Ulysses in Our World’ [271].

George C. Sandelescu, ed., Assessing the 1984 Ulysses (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1986), 300pp. CONTENTS: Bernard Benstock, ‘Ulysses: How Many Texts are There In It?’; Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli, ‘Joyce the Scribe and the Right Hand Reader’; Giovanni Cianci, ‘Typography Underrated: A Note on Aeolus’; Carla de Petris, ‘On Mondadori’s Telemachia’; Richard Ellmann, ‘Crux in the new edition of Ulysses’; Wilhelm Fuger, ‘Unanswered Questions about a Questionable Answer’; Michael Patrick Gillespie, ‘Why Does one Re-read Ulysses?’; Clive Hart, ‘Art Thou Real, My Ideal?’; David Hayman, ‘Balancing the Book, or Pro and Contra the Gabler Ulysses’; Suzette Henke, ‘Reconstructing Ulysses in a Deconstructive Mode’; Richard M. Kain, ‘Dublin 1904’; Carla Marengo Vaglio, ‘Italics in Ulysses’; Ira B. Nadel, ‘Textual Criticism, Literary Theory and the New Ulysses’; Patrick Parrinder, ‘From Telemachus to Penelope: Episodes Anonymous?’; Charles Peake, ‘Some Critical Comments on the Telemachia in the 1984 Ulysses’; C. George Sandulescu, ‘Curios of Signs I am Here to Rede!’; Fitz Senn, ‘Ulysses between Corruption and Correction’; Francisco Garcia Tortosa, ‘Ulysses in Spanish’; Donald Phillip Verene, ‘The 1922 and 1984 Editions: Some Philosophical Considerations’.

Jacques Aubert, [ed.,] Joyce avec Lacan: Jacques Lacan ... (et al.); sous la direction de Jacques Aubert; préface de Jacques-Alain Miller [Bibliothèque des Analytica] (Paris: Navarin / Diffusion Seuil c1987), 211pp., ill. [I: Lacan, Joyce le symptôme, I; Joyce le symptôme, II; Le sinthome [Séminaire de 18 nov. 1975]; le sinthome [Séminaire du 20 jan. 1976]; Aubert, Galeries pour un portrait. II: Catherine Millot, Epiphanies; Jean-Michel Rabate Notes sur les ex-ils; Annie Tardit, L’appensée, le renard, et l’hérésie; Jean-Guy Godin, Du symptôme a son épure: le sinthome; contribs. by Lacan available - online > index.]

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Donald Phillip Verene, ed., Vico and Joyce (NY: SUNY 1987), p.241pp. [Product of a week-long International Conference held at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, June 1985.] CONTENTS: Pt. I: Cycles and History. Northrop Frye, ‘Cycle and Apocalypse in Finnegans Wake’ [3]; Atali Fáj, ‘Vicos Basic Law of History in Finnegans Wake’ [20]; Joseph Mali, ‘Mythology and Counter-History: The New Critical Art of Vico’ [32]; Peter Munz, ‘James Joyce Myth-Maker at the End of Time’ [48]. Pt. II: Joyce and Vico. Bernard Benstock, ‘Vico... Joyce. Triv.. Quad’ [59]; H. S. Harris, ‘What is Mr Ear-Vico Supposed to be Earing?’ [68]; Peter Hughes, ‘From Allusion to Implosion: Vico. Michelet. Joyce, ‘Beckett’ [83]; Rosa Maria Bosinelli, ‘“I use his cycles as a trellis”: Joyce’s Treatment of Vico in Finnegans Wake’ [123]. Pt III: Language and Myth. Donald R. Kelley, ‘In Vico’s Wake’ [135]; Ernesto Grassi, ‘Joyce and Vico: The Demythologization of the Real’ [147]; John O’Neill, ‘Vico mit Freude ReJoyced’ [160]; Naomi S. Baron & Nikhil Battachayra, ‘Vico and Joyce: The Limits of Language’ [175]; Dominic Manganiello, ‘Vico’s Ideal History and Joyces Language’ [196]; Carla Marengo Vaglio, ‘The “Predicable” and the “Practical”: Language and History in Vico and Joyce’ [207]. Pt. IV: Epilogue. Donald Phillip Verene, ‘Vico as Reader of Joyce’ [221]; Vico and Literary History in the Early Joyce’ [100]; The City in Vico, ‘Dante and Joyce’ [110]. Contribs. [233]. [Available at Google Books - online.] See also his Knowledge of Things Human and Divine: Vico’s New Science and Finnegans Wake (Yale UP 2003).

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David Lloyd, Nationalism and Minor Literature: James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism (Berkeley: Cal. UP 1987). INDEX: Joyce, James: pp.xii, 209; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: pp.162, 209, 237-38; Stephen Dedalus, 209, 237-38; Stephen Hero: p.44.

Christine van Boheemen, ed., Joyce, Modernity and Mediation [European Studies 1]; (Amstersdam: Rodopi 1989), 228pp. CONTENTS: Ulrich Schneider, ‘Mediatization in “Aeolus” and “Oxen of the Sun”’; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘The Modernity of Exiles’; Fritz Senn,‘Anagnostic probes’; Christine van Boheemen, “The Language of Flow”: Joyce’s Dispossession of the Feminine in Ulysses’; Marilyn L. Brownstein, ‘Against Mediation: The Role of the Postmodern in The Phaedrus and Finnegans Wake’; Richard Brown, ‘“Perhaps she had not told him all the story”: Observations on the Topic of Adultery in some Modern Literature’; Mary Power, ‘Molly Bloom and Mary Anderson: The Inside Story’; Peter J. de Voogd, ‘James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and the Mediatization of Word and Image’; Marius Buning, ‘History and Modernity in Joyce’s Ulysses’.

Bernard Benstock, ed., Critical Essays on James Joyce’s Ulysses (Boston: G.K. Hall 1989), 331pp.; CONTENTS: Introduction: Bernard Benstock, ‘In the Track of the Odyssean’ [1]; Part 1: “What’s This Here, Guvnor?”’ [3]; Carl Jung, ‘Ulysses: A Monologue’ [9]; A. Walton Litz, ‘The Design of Ulysses’ [27]; Anthony Cronin, ‘The Advent of Bloom’ [57]; John Z. Bennett, ‘Unposted Letter: Joyce’s Leopold Bloom’ [89]; Louis Hyman, ‘Some Aspects of the Jewish Backgrounds of Ulysses’ [99]; Roy K. Guttfried, ‘Joycean Syntax as Appropriate Order’ [129]. Part 2: Anatomies of “Nausicaa”’ [145]; Stuart Gilbert, ‘“Nausicaa”’ [149]; Frank Budgen, ‘[“Nausikaa”]’ [159]; Stanley Sultan, ‘The Strand (Bloom)’ [167]; Harry Blamires, ‘“Nausicaa”’ [177]; Fritz Senn, ‘“Nausicaa”’ [186]; Marilyn French, ‘The World: “Nausikaa”’ [214]; C. H. Peake, ‘Ulysses: Techniques and Styles: “Nausicaa”’ [224]; Paul van Caspel, ‘“Nausicaa”’ [231]. Part 3: Future Indicative’ [239]; Robert Scholes, ‘Ulysses: The Structuralist Perspective’ [243]; Dorrit Cohn, ‘The Autonomous Monologue’ [252]; Jeremy Hawthorn, ‘Ulysses, Modernism, and Marxist Criticism’ [264; also in W. J. McCormack & Alistair Stead, eds., James Joyce and Modernism,1984]; Brook Thomas, ‘Formal Re-creation: Re-reading and Re-joycing the Re-rightings of Ulysses’ [277]; Karen Lawrence, ‘The Narrative Norm’ [292]; Patrick McGee, ‘Gesture: The Letter of the Word’ [304]; Index [327-31].

Augustine Martin, ed., James Joyce: The Artist in the Labyrinth (London: Ryan Publ. 1990), 354pp. CONTENTS: Augustine Martin, ‘The Artist and the Labyrinth’ [11]; T. P. Dolan, ‘The Language of Dubliners’ [25]; Benedict Kiely, ‘Joyce’s Legacy’ [41]; John McGahern, ‘Dubliners’ [63]; John Banville, ‘Survivors of Joyce’ [73]; Deirdre Bair, ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ [83]; Colbert Kearney, ‘Stephen’s Green: The Image of Ireland in Joyce’ [101]; Eamon Grennan, ‘The Poet Joyce’ [121; Vincent Dowling, ‘Directing “Exiles”’ [147]; Clive Hart, ‘The Rhythm of Ulysses’ [153]; Barbara Hardy, ‘Joyce and Homer: Seeing Double’ [169]; Maud Ellmann, The Ghosts of Ulysses’ [193]; Petr Skrabanek, ‘Finnegans Wake: Night Joyce of a Thousand Tiers’ [229]; Maureen Murphy, ‘Joyce and the Folk Imagination’ [241] ; A. N. Jeffares, ‘Joyce’s Precursors’ [261]; Denis Donoghue, ‘Pound’s Joyce, Eliot’s Joyce’ [293]; Brendan Kennelly, ‘Joyce’s Humanism’ [313]; Ulick O’Connor, ‘Joyce and Gogarty: Royal and Ancient, Two Hangers-on’ [333].

Derek Attridge, ed., The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (Cambridge UP 1990), 305pp. CONTENTS: Chronology of Joyce’s life [xi-xiii]; Derek Attridge, ‘ Reading Joyce [1]; Seamus Deane, ‘Joyce the Irishman [31]; Klaus Reichert, ‘The European Background of Joyce’s Writing [55]; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘Joyce the Parisian [83]; John Paul Riquelme, ‘Stephen Hero, Dubliners, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Styles of Realism and Fantasy [103]; Jennifer Levine, ‘Ulysses [131]; Margot Norris, ‘Finnegans Wake [161]; Vicki Mahaffey, ‘Joyce’s Shorter Works [185]; Hans Walter Gabler, ‘Joyce’s Text in Progress [213]; Karen Lawrence, ‘Joyce and Feminism [237]; Christopher Butler, ‘Joyce, Modernism, and Post-modernism’ [259]; Further Reading [283]; Index [295-305].

Geert Lernout, ed., Finnegans Wake: Fifty Years [European Joyce Studies, Vol. II] (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1990), 173pp. CONTENTS: Claude Jacquet, In the buginning was the wold: James Joyce and Genetic Criticism [23]; Dirk Vanderbeke, Elisabeth Ruge & Reinhard Schafer, Digressions in the Book for Allemannen [37]; Klaus Reichert, Vico’s Method and its Relation to Joyce’s [47]; Fritz Senn,, Vexations of Group Reading: ‘transluding from the otherman’ [61]; 4. Laurent Milesi, Metaphors of the Question in Finnegans Wake [79]; Vincent Deane, HCE and the Fall of Pelagius [109]; Alan Roughley, ALP’s ‘Sein’ and “Zeit”: Questions of Finnegans Wake’s Being and Language in a Philosophical Context [125]; Hanjo Berressem, The Letter, The Litter!: The Defilement of the Signifier in Finnegans Wake [139]; Danis Rose & John O’Hanlon, A Nice Beginning: On the Ulysses / Finnegans Wake Interface [165]. [Partially available at Google Books - online.]

E. H. Mikhail, ed., Ecce Puer: James Joyce: Interviews and Recollections (Springer 1990), 207pp. CONTENTS: A Sister Recalls Joyce in Dublin - May Joyce Monaghan [1]; My School Friend James Joyce - Judge Eugene Sheehy; [9] An Extremely Clever Boy - George Russell [15] a Portrait of the Artist - Oliver St John Gogarty [32] Joyce Among the Journalists - Piaras Béaslaí [41] Two Reminiscences Antonio - Fonda Savio [48] My First English Teacher - Mario Nordio [57] Pappy Never Spoke of Jims Books - Eileen Joyce Schaurek [69] Visits with James Joyce - P. Beaumont Wadsworth [89] A Drink with Joyce - Ernest Hemingway [102] James Joyce in Paris - Aldous Huxley [118] James Joyce in Paris - Margaret Anderson [133] Joyce - Virgil Thomson [147] James Joyce in Paris - Mary Colum [160] Joyce’s Burial - Hans Gasser [175] Index [198].

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Janet E. Dunleavy, Melvin J. Friedman & Michael Patrick Gillespie, eds., Joycean Occasions: Essays from the Milwaukee James Joyce Conference (Delaware UP 1991), 246pp.; CONTENTS: Patrick A. McCarthy, ‘Reading in Ulysses’ [15]; Daniel P. Gunn, ‘The name of Bloom’ [33]; Suzette Henke, ‘Joyce’s New Womanly Man: Sexual Signatures of Androgynous Transformation in Ulysses’ [46]; Zack Bowen, ‘Comic Narration’ [59]; Susan Brienza, ‘Murphy, Shem, Morpheus, and Murphies: Eumaeus Meets the Wake’ [80]; Shari Benstock, ‘Apostrophes: Framing Finnegans Wake’ [95]; ‘“The bawl of bats” in Joyce’s Belfry: The Flitter-mouse in the Feminine’ [125]; Bernard Benstock, ‘James Joyce: The Olefactory Factor’ [138]; Richard Corballis, ‘Wilde ... Joyce ... O’Brien ... Stoppard: Modernism and Postmodernism in Travesties’ [157]; Fritz Senn, ‘Joycean Provections’ [171]; Sidney Feshbach, ‘“The Veripatetic Imago”’ [195]; Mary Reynolds, ‘Davin’s Boots: Joyce, Yeats, and Irish History’ [218]; Notes on Contributors [235]; Index [239].

Vincent Cheng & Timothy Martin, eds, Joyce in Context [James Joyce Conference, Philadelphia 1989] (Cambridge UP 1992), xvii, 292pp. CONTENTS: List of illustrations’ [ix]; Notes on contributors’ [xi]; Acknowledgments’ [xv]; Abbreviations’ [xvi]. Editors’ introduction’ [1]; 1. Timothy Martin, ‘The 1989 conference: a retrospect’ [9]. PART I - THE MODERNIST CONTEXT: 2. Denis Donoghue, ‘Is there a case against Ulysses ?’ [19]; 3. Johanna X. K. Garvey, ‘Woolf and Joyce: Reading and Re/vision’ [40]; 4. Vincent J. Cheng, ‘Joyce and Ford Madox Ford’ [55]; 5. Brian W. Shaffer, ‘Joyce and Freud: Discontent and Its Civilizations’ [73]. PART II - THE CONTEXT OF THE OTHER: JOYCE ON THE MARGINS: 6. Colleen R. Lamos, ‘Cheating on the Father: Joyce and Gender Justice in Ulysses’ [91]; 7. Theresa O’Connor, ‘Demythologizing Nationalism: Joyce’s Dialogized Grail myth’ [100]; 8. Bonnie Kime Scott, ‘Joyce and Michelet: Why Watch Molly Menstruate?’ [122]; 9. Suzette Henke, ‘Re-visioning Joyce’s masculine signature’ [138]. PART III - CONTEXTS FOR JOYCE: 10. Roy Gotffried, ‘“Scrupulous Meanness” Reconsidered: Dubliners as Stylistic Parody’ [153]; 11. Garry M. Leonard, ‘Joyce and Lacan: the Twin Narratives of History and His[S]tory in the “Nestor” Chapter of Ulysses’ [170]; 12. Constance V. Tagopoulos, ‘Joyce and Homer: Return, Disguise, and Recognition in “Ithaca” [184]; 13. Dan Schiff, ‘James Joyce and Cartoons’ [201]. PART IV - RE-READING JOYCE: JOYCE IN HIS OWN CONTEXT: 14 Ian Crump, ‘Refining himself out of existence: the evolution of Joyce’s aesthetic theory and the drafts of A Portrait’ [223]; 15. Fritz Senn, ‘Entering the Lists: Sampling Early Catalogues’ [241]; 16. Bernard Benstock, ‘Cataloguing in Finnegans Wake: Counting Counties’ [259]; 17. Di Jin, ‘Translating Ulysses, East and West’ [270]. Index [185].

Patrick A. McCarthy, ed., Critical Essays on James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” (NY: G. K. Hall; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan 1992), xi, 274pp. CONTENTS: Clive Hart, ‘Finnegans Wake in adjusted perspective’; Louis O. Mink, ‘Reading Finnegans Wake’; Fritz Senn, ‘A reading exercise in Finnegans Wake ‘; Robert Boyle, ‘Finnegans Wake, page 185: an explication’; Derek Attridge, ‘[The peculiar language of Finnegans Wake]’; Michael Patrick Gillespie, ‘Raiding fur Buginners: FW 611.04-613.04’; Patrick A. McCarthy, ‘The last epistle of Finnegans Wake’; Bernard Benstock, ‘L. Boom as dreamer in Finnegans Wake’; Michael H. Begnal, ‘Finnegans Wake and the nature of narrative’; David Hayman, ‘Nodality and the infra-structure of Finnegans Wake’; John Bishop, ‘The identity of the dreamer’; Adaline Glasheen, ‘Finnegans Wake and the girls from Boston, “Mass”’; Morris Beja, ‘Dividual chaoses: case histories of multiple personality and Finnegans Wake’; Shari Benstock, ‘Sexuality and survival in Finnegans Wake’; Kimberly J. Devlin, ‘”See ourselves as others see us”: Joyce’s look at the eye of the other’; Margot Norris, ‘The last chapter of Finnegans Wake: Stephen finds his mother’; John B. Vickery, ‘Finnegans Wake and the rituals of mortality’; David Pierce, ‘The politics of Finnegans Wake’; Vincent J. Cheng, ‘The general and the sepoy: imperialism and power in the Museyroom’.

Richard Brown, James Joyce: A Post-Culturalist Perspective [Macmillan Modern Novelists] (London: Macmillan 1992), and Do. [in USA], James Joyce (NY: St Martin’s Press 1992), xx, 131pp. CONTENTS: Part 1 “Dubliners”: City of Failure; The Silence of “The Sisters”; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Counterparts; the Dark Gaunt House; Lover Letters. Part 2: “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”: A Portrait of the Reader as Critic; Once upon a Time; Vice Versa; To Say It In Words; Heavenly God; Literary Theory. Part 3: “Ulysses”: Beginnings; Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; The Palimpsest of Identity; Diverging Perspectives; The God of Signposts; The Man Killer. Part 4: “Finnegans Wake”: The book of the Night; The Composition of Everybody; The Years of the Underground; Post-differential Epistemology; Anamorphic Hypotheses. Appendices: Chronology; “Ulysses” Episode by Episode; Shakespeare and Company - The Palimpsest of Identity; Wandering Rocks.

David Lloyd, Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-colonial Moment (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1993). INDEX: Joyce, James: pp. 2, 8, 11n, 57n, 12-21n; Irish Literary Revival: pp.100-09; MacCabe on Ulysses: pp. 107, 109, 120n.

Mary T. Reynolds, ed., James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays (NJ: Prentice Hall 1993), 238pp. CONTENTS: Richard Ellmann, ‘James Joyce: In and Out of Art’; Denis Donoghue, ‘The Fiction of James Joyce’; David Hayman, ‘Language of/as Gesture in Joyce’; Fritz Senn, ‘Joyce’s Misconducting Universe’; Seamus Heaney, “Station Island”; Bonnie Kime Scott, ‘Gender, Discourse, and Culture: Exiles’; Phillip F. Herring, ‘Dubliners: The Trials of Adolescence’; Cheryl Herr, ‘The Sermon as Mass Product: “Grace” and A Portrait’; Hugh Kenner, ‘“O, an impossible person!”’; A. Walton Litz, ‘The Genre of Ulysses’ [cp.117]; Karen Lawrence, ‘Ulysses: The Narrative Norm’; James H. Maddox, ‘Mockery in Ulysses’; Frederic R. Jameson, ‘Ulysses in History’; Maud Ellmann, ‘To Sing or to Sign’; Margot Norris, ‘Finnegans Wake: The Critical Method’; Bernard Benstock, ‘Comic Seriousness and Poetic Prose’; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘Vico’s “Night of Darkness”: The New Science and Finnegans Wake’; Jacques Derrida, ‘Two Words for Joyce’.

Frederick K. Lang, Ulysses and the Irish God (Bucknell UP 1993), [8], 317pp. CONTENTS: Preface [11]; Introduction [15]; Rite and Dogma [27]; Fathers and Sons [67]; The Irish Christ [92]; The Bread of Experience [105]; The Living and the Dead [133]; The Hand of God [169]; Christ in Nighttown [184]; Nocturnal Emissions [199]; An Irish Breakfast [244]; The Good Friday [257]; Notes [280]; Works Cited 297]; Index [303].

Susan Stanford Friedman, ed., Joyce: The Return of the Repressed (Cornell UP 1993), 330pp. CONTENTS: Susan Stanford Friedman, ‘(Self)censorship and the making of Joyce’s modernism’; Alberto Moreiras, ‘Pharmaconomy’; Robert Spoo, ‘Uncanny returns in “The Dead”’; Jay Clayton, ‘A Portrait of the Romantic Poet as a Young Modernist’; Richard Pearce, ‘Simon’s Irish Rose’; Laura Doyle, ‘Races and Chains’; Joseph A. Boone, ‘Staging Sexuality’; Marilyn L. Brownstein, ‘The Preservation of Tenderness’; Ellen Carol Jones, ‘Textual mater’; Christine Froula, ‘Mothers of Invention/Doaters of Inversion’.

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Richard Pearce, ed., Molly Blooms: A Polylogue on “Penelope” and Cultural Studies (Wisconsin UP 1994), 291pp. CONTENTS: Contributors [vii]; Richard Pearce, Introduction: ‘Molly Blooms - A Polylogue on “Penelope”’ [3]. Part 1 - Molly and the Male Gaze: 1. Kathleen McCormick, ‘Reproducing Molly Bloom: A Revisionist History of the Reception of “Penelope,” 1922-1970’ [17; see extract]; 2. Pearce, ‘How Does Molly Bloom Look Through the Male Gaze?’ [40]. Part 2 - Molly in Performance: 3. Cheryl Herr, ‘“Penelope” as Period Piece’ [63]; 4. Kimberly J. Devlin, ‘Pretending in “Penelope”: Masquerade, Mimicry, and Molly Bloom’ [80]. Part 3 - Negotiating Colonialism: 5. Carol Shloss, ‘Molly’s Resistance to the Union: Marriage and Colonialism in Dublin, 1904’ [105 see extract]; 6. Susan Bazargan, ‘Mapping Gibraltar: Colonialism, Time, and Narrative in “Penelope”’ [119; see extract]; 7. Brian W. Shaffer, ‘Negotiating Self and Culture: Narcissism, Competing Discourses, and Ideological Becoming in “Penelope”’ [139; see extract]. Part 4 - Molly as Consumer: 8. Joseph Heininger, ‘Molly Bloom’s Ad Language and Goods Behavior: Advertising as Social Communication in Ulysses’ [155; see extract]; 9. Jennifer Wicke, ‘“Who’s She When She’s at Home?”: Molly Bloom and the Work of Consumption’ [174]; 10. Garry Leonard, ‘Molly Bloom’s “Lifestyle”: The Performative as Normative’ [196; see extract]. Part 5 - Molly as Body and Embodied: 11. Margaret Mills Harper, ‘“Taken in Drapery”: Dressing the Narrative in the Odyssey and “Penelope”’ [237] ; 12. Ewa Ziarek, ‘The Female Body, Technology, and Memory in “Penelope”‘ [264]. Index 287.

Andrew Gibson, ed., Reading Joyce’s “Circe” (Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi 1994), 280pp. CONTENTS: Bibl. Note [1]; Andrew Gibson, Introduction [3]; L. H. Platt, ‘Ulysses’ [15]; [q. auth.] and the Irish Literary Theatre’ [33]; Fritz Senn, “Circe” as Harking Back in Provective Arrangement’ [63]; Steven Connor, “Jigajiga...Yummyyum...Pfuiiiiiii!...Bbbbbllllblblblblobschb!”: ‘Circe’s Ventriloquy’ [93]; R. G. Hampson, “Toft’s Cumbersome Whiligig”: Hallucinations, Thatricality and Mnemotechnic in V.A.19 and the First Edition Text of “Circe”’ [143]; Andrew Gibson, ‘“Strangers in my House, Bad Manners to Them!”: England in “Circe”’ [179]; Richard Brown, ‘“Everything” in “Circe”’ [222]; Katie Wales, ‘“Bloom Passes Through Several Walls”: The Stage Directions in “Circe”’ [241]; L. H. Platt, Appendix: ‘The Deliverer and Ulysses 15’ [277-80]. Publisher’s notice: claims the book is the outcome of 5 years work on the part of the London University Joyce Group.

John Harty, III, ed., James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: A Casebook (NY: Garland Press 1991), rep. edn. (London: Routledge, 2015), 234pp. CONTENTS: Acknowls. [xi]; Editor’s Note [xv]; Harty, Introduction [xviii]; Bernard Benstock, A Working Outline of Finnegans Wake [3]. Pt. 1: Assessments. David Hayman, Dreaming up the Wake [13]; Colin MacCabe, An Introduction to Finnegans Wake [23] Hugh Kenner, Shem the Textman [33] Sheldon Brivic, The Femasculine Obsubject: A Lacanian Reading of FW606-607 [45]; Bernard Benstock: Quinet in the Wake: The Proof or the Pudding [57]; Vincent Cheng, Finnegans Wake: All the World’s a Stage [69] John Gordon, The Convertshems of the Tchoose: Judaism and Jewishness in Finnegans Wake [85]; Albert Montesi, Joyce’s ‘Blue Guitar’: Wallace Stevens and Finnegans Wake [99]. Part II: Joyce’s Textual Self-Referentiality: Alan Loxterman, Every Man His Own God: From Ulysses to Finnegans Wake [115]; David Robinson, Joyce’s Nonce-Symbolic Calculus: A Finnegans Wake Trajectory [131]; Kimberly J. Devlin, The Female Word [141]. Part III: Performance: David Borodin, ‘Group drinkards maaks grope thinkards or how reads rotary’ (FW312.31) [151]; David Hayman, Notes for Staging Finnegans Wake [195]; Kit Basquin, Mary Ellen Bute’s Film Adaptation of Finnegans Wake [177]; Margaret Rodgers, Thoughts on Making Music from the Hundred-Letter Words in Finnegans Wake [189}. Index [199]. (Available in part at Google Books - online; accessed 02.12.2107 - see partial copy - infra.)

David Hayman & Sam Slote, eds., Genetic Studies in Joyce (Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi 1995), 279pp. CONTENTS: David Hayman, ‘Genetic Criticism and Joyce: An Introduction’; Geert Lernout, ‘Finnegans Wake Notebooks and Radical Philology’; Daniel Ferrer, ‘Reflections on a Discarded Set of Proofs’; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘Back to Beria! Genetic Joyce and Eco’s “Ideal Readers”’; Christopher Bjork, ‘“Sinted sageness”: Some Sources for Kevin in Finnegans Wake’; Sam Slote, ‘Wilde Thing: Concerning the Eccentricities of a Figure of Decadence in Finnegans Wake’; David J. Califf, ‘Clones and Mutations: A Genetic Look at “Dave the dancekerl”’; Beryl Schlossman, ‘Tristan and Isolde or the Triangles of Desire: Jealousy, Eroticism and Poetics’; Jed Deppman, ‘Hallow’d Chronickles and Exploytes of King Rodericke O’Conor from Joyce’s Earliest Draftes to the End of Causal Historie’; Bill Cadbury, ‘Development of the “eye, ear, nose and throat witness” Testimony in I.4’; David Hayman, ‘To Make a List: Two Preparatory Puzzles on the Threshold of Book III’.

John Bishop, Joyce’s Book of the Dark: “Finnegans Wake” (Wisconsin UP 1986, 1995), 448pp. CONTENTS: Maps and Figures [ix]; Abbrevs. [xi]; Etymologies [xiii]; Acknowledgements [xv]; An Introduction: On Obscurity [3]; 1. ‘Reading the Evening World”; 2. Nothing in Particular: On English Obliterature; 3. “Finnegan”; 4. Inside the Coffin: Finnegans Wake and the Egyptian Book of the Dead [86]; 5. The Identity of the Dreamer [126]; 6. Nocturnal Geography: 7. How to Take “Polar Bearings” [146]; Vico’s “Night of Darkness”; 8. “Anna Livia Plurabelle”; [see extract].

Mark A. Wollaeger, Victor Luftig & Robert E. Spoo, eds., Joyce and the Subject of History (Michigan UP 1996), vi, 248pp. CONTENTS: Garry Leonard, ‘The History of Now: Commodity Culture and Everyday Life in Joyce’; R. Brandon Kershner, ‘History as Nightmare: Joyce’s Portrait to Christy Brown’; Fritz Senn, ‘History as Text in Reverse’; Joseph Valente, ‘James Joyce and the Cosmopolitan Sublime’; Wollaeger, ‘Reading Ulysses: Agency, Ideology, and the Novel’; Robert Spoo, ‘“Nestor” and the Nightmare: The Presence of the Great War in Ulysses’; Daniel Moshenberg, ‘What Shouts in the Street: 1904, 1922, 1990-93’; Victor Luftig, ‘Literary tourism and Dublin’s Joyce’; Vicki Mahaffey, ‘“Fantastic histories”: Nomadology and Female Piracy in Finnegans Wake’; Margot Norris, The Critical History of Finnegans Wake and the Finnegans Wake of historical criticism’; Cheryl Herr, Ireland from the Outside’; Robert Spoo, ‘Bibliography of Criticism on Joyce and History’.

R. B. Kershner, ed., Joyce and Popular Culture [Florida James Joyce Ser.] (Florida UP 1996), 223pp., ill. CONTENTS: Part 1 - Derek Attridge, ‘Theoretical Approaches: Theoretical Approaches to Popular Culture’; David Glover, ‘A Tale of “Unwashed Joyceans” - James Joyce, Popular Culture and Popular Theory’; Michael Walsh, ‘A(dorna) to Z(izek) - From the Culture Industry to the Joyce Industry, and Beyond. Part 2 - Chester G. Anderson, ‘Popular Sources and Paradigms: Should Boys Have Sweethearts?’; Michael H. Begnal, ‘Molly Bloom and Lady Hester Stanhope’; Stephen Watt, ‘“Nothing for a Woman in That” - James Lowebirch and Masochistic Fantasy in Ulysses’; David Hayman, ‘Dr. J. Collins Looks at J.J. - The Invention of a Shaun. Part 3 - Zack Bowen, ‘The Context of Culture: Wilde About Joyce’; Thomas Jackson Rice, ‘The (Tom) Swiftean Comedy of “Scylla and Charybdis”’; Garry M. Leonard, ‘Advertising and Religion in James Joyce’s Fiction - The New (Improved) Testament’; Donald Theall, ‘Joyce’s Techno-Poetics of Artifice - Machines, Media, Memory and Modes of Communication in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Part 4 - Helene Meyers, ‘Joyce in Popular Culture: Appropriating the Master Appropriator - “The James Joyce Murder” as Feminist Critique’; Adrian Peever’; ‘James Joyce as Woman - Fionnula Flanagan, Joyce and Film, Richard Brown, ‘Marilyn Monroe Reading Ulysses - Goddess or Postcultural Cyborg?, Vincent J. Cheng, ‘The Joycean Unconscious, or Getting Respect in the Real World.

Andrew Gibson, ed., Joyce’s “Ithaca” [European Readings] (Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi 1996), 281pp. CONTENTS: Bibliographical Note [1]; Andrew Gibson, Introducton [3]; Aesthetics - Fritz Senn, “Ithaca”: A Portrait of the Chapter as a Long List [31]; Antonia Fritz, Oviditties in “Ithaca” [77]. Politics - L. H. Platt, “If Brian Boru Could But Come Back and See Old Dublin Now”: Materialism, the National Culture and Ulysses 17 [105]; Andrew Gibson, “An Aberration of the Light of Reason”: Science and Cultural Politicsl in “Ithaca” [133]. Economics - Richard Brown, Returning to the Economic in “Ithaca” [177]; “from the House of Bondage to the Wilderness of Inhabitation”: The Domestic Economies of “Ithaca” [199]. Propaedeutics - Robert Hampson, “Allowing for Possible Error”: Education and Cathecism in “Ithaca” [299] (Available in part at Google Books - online.)

Jolanta W. Wawrzycka & Marlena G. Corcoran, eds., Gender in Joyce [Florida James Joyce Ser.] (1997), CONTENTS. Foreword [vii]; Preface [ix]; Margot Norris, ‘Introduction: Joyce’s “Mamfesta”: Mater and Material, Text and Textile’ [1]; Susan Sutliff Brown, ‘The Joyce Brothers in Drag: Fraternal Incest in Ulysses’ [8]; Mark Osteen, ‘Female Property: Women and Gift Exchange in Ulysses’ [29]; Lesley Higgins, ‘“Lovely Seaside Girls” or “Sweet Murderers of Men”? Fatal Women in Ulysses’ [47]; Martha Fodaski Black ‘S/He-Male Voices in Ulysses: Counterpointing the “New Womanly Man”’ [62]; Heyward Ehrlich, ‘Socialism, Gender and Imagery in Dubliners’ [82]; Mary Lowe-Evans, ‘Joyce and the Myth of the Mediatrix’ [191]; Jean Kimball, ‘Eros and Logos in Ulysses: A Jungian Pattern’ [112]; Garry Leonard, ‘The Masquerade of Gender: Mrs. Kearney and the “Moral Umbrella” of Mr. O’Madden Burke’ [133]; Ewa Ziarek, ‘“Circe”: Joyce’s Argumentum ad Feminam’ [150]; Margaret Mills Harper, ‘Fabric and Fame in the Odyssey and “Penelope”’ [170]; Contribs. [189]; index. [191].

Matthew J. C. Hodgart & Ruth Bauerle, Joyce’s Grand Operoar: Opera in Finnegans Wake (Illinois UP 1997), 341pp. CONTENTS: ‘Rich inheritance from a bankrupt; ‘Opera geography’; ‘Which brilliant career?’; ‘Two Shems and two Shauns’; ‘Chapelizod’s opera house’; ‘Page/line list of opera allusions in Finnegans Wake’; ‘Alphabetical list of composers, and their operatic works, librettists, designers, critics and conductors in Finnegans Wake’; ‘Finding list of opera and aria titles and opera characters in Finnegans Wake’; ‘Opera singers in Finnegans Wake’.

Vincent J. Cheng, Kimberly J. Devlin & Margot Norris, eds., Joycean Cultures/Culturing Joyces [transactions of conference at Univ. of California] (Delaware UP; AUP 1998), 294pp. CONTENTS: Abbreviations [7]; Acknowledgments [9]; Introduction [11]; Christine Van Boheemen ‘Joyce’s Sublime Body: Trauma, Textuality, and Subjectivity’ [23; infra]; Clara D. McLean, ‘Wasted Words: The Body Language of Joyce’s “Nausicaa”’ [44; infra]; Harly Ramsey, ‘Mourning, Melancholia, and the Maternal Body: Cultural Constructions of Bereavement in Ulysses’ [59]; Bonnie Kime Scott, ‘“The Young Girl,” Jane Heap, and Trials of Gender in Ulysses’ [78]; Carol Loeb Shloss, ‘Finnegans Wake and the Daughter’s Fate’ [95]; Susan Stanford Friedman, ‘Reading Joyce: Icon of Modernity? Champion of Alterity? Ventriloquist of Otherness?’ [113]; John Whittier-Ferguson, ‘Embattled Indifference: Politics on the Galleys of Herbert Gorman’s James Joyce’ [134]; R. B. Kershner, ‘The Culture of Ulysses’ [149]; Catherine Whitley, ‘The Politics of Representation in Finnegans Wake’s “Ballad”’ [163]; Erika Anne Flesher, ‘“I am getting on nicely in the dark”: Picturing the Blind Spot in Illustrations for Ulysses’ [177]; Irene A. Martyniuk, ‘Illustrating Ulysses, Illustrating Joyce’ [203]; Cheryl Temple Herr, ‘The Silence of the Hares: Peripherality in Ireland and in Joyce’ [216]; Benjamin Harder, ‘Stephen’s Prop: Aspects of the Ashplant in Portrait and Ulysses’ [241]; Mark Osteen, ‘A High Grade Ha: The “Politicoecomedy” of Headwear in Ulysses’ [253]; Contributors [284]; Index [287]. (See also general notes, infra.)

Joseph Valente, ed., Quare Joyce (Michigan UP 1998; pbk. 2000), x, 297pp. CONTENTS: Joseph Valente, ‘Joyce’s (sexual) choices: a historical overview’ [1]; Margot Norris, ‘Walk on the Wild(e) side: the doubled reading of “An encounter”’ [19]; Jean-Michel Rabaté, ‘On Joycean and Wildean Sodomy’ [35]; RETHINKING THE CLOSET: Joseph Valente, ‘Thrilled by his Touch: the Aestheticizing of Homosexual Panic in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ [47]; Garry Leonard, ‘“The Nothing Place”: Secrets and Sexual Orientation in Joyce’ [7]; Jennifer Levine, ‘James Joyce, Tattoo Artist: Tracing the Outlines of Homosocial Desire’ [101]; Vicki Mahaffey, ‘Père-version and Im-mère-sion: Idealized Corruption in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The Picture of Dorian Gray’ [121]; Robert L. Caserio, ‘Casement, Joyce, and Pound: Some New Meanings of Treason’ [139]; Gregory Castle, ‘Confessing Oneself: Homoeros and Colonial Bildung in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ [157]; Colleen Lamos, ‘“A Faint Glimmer of Lesbianism” in Joyce’ [185]; Christy Burns, ‘In the Original Sinse: The Gay Cliché and Verbal Transgression in Finnegans Wake’ [201]; Marian Eide, ‘Beyond “Syphilisation”: Finnegans Wake, AIDS, and the Discourse of Contagion’ [225]; Tim Dean ‘“Paring His Fingernails”: Homosexuality and Joyce’s Impersonalist Aesthetic’, [241].; Christopher Lane, ‘The Vehicle of Vague Speech’ [273]; Contributors [291]; Name Index [293].

Len Platt, Joyce and the Anglo-Irish: A Study of Joyce and the Literary Revival [Costerus n.s., Vol. 119] (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1998), 249pp. CONTENTS: 1. Opening Encounters (A Historical Perspective); The Triestine Lectures; Naming the State in Dubliners; Portrait of the Artist. 2 - Usurper: The Buckeen and the Dogsbody: Aspects of History and Culture in “Telemachus”; Pisgah Sights: the National Culture and the Catholic Middle Class in “Aeolus”; ‘Normans, but bastard Normans’; Culture and Nationalism in “Scylla and Charybdis”; ‘Moving in Times of Yore’: Historiographies in “Wandering Rocks”. Corresponding with the Greeks (An Overview of Ulysses as an Irish Epic; Mr. Bloom. Pt. 4: Revivalism in Popular Culture: “Sirens and “Cyclops”; Pt. 5. “Circe” and the Irish Literary Theatre. 6: ‘Our Modern Babylon’; Modernity and the National Culture in “Eumaeus” and “Ithaca”. 7: Engendering Nation: Nationalism and Sexuality in “Nausicaa”, “Oxen of the Sun”, and “Penelope”.

Rosa M. Bollettieri Bosinelli & Harold F. Mosher, Jnr., eds., Rejoycing: New Readings of “Dubliners” (Kentucky UP 1998), xi, 268pp. - CONTENTS: Sonja Basić, ‘Book of many uncertainties: Joyce’s Dubliners’; Thomas Jackson Rice, ‘Geometry of meaning in Dubliners: a Euclidian approach’; Harold E. Mosher, Jr., ‘Clicheés and repetition in Dubliners: the example of “A Little Cloud”; Jolanta W. Wawrzycka, ‘Text at the crossroads: multilingual transformations of James Joyce’s Dubliners’; Trevor L. Williams, ‘No cheer for the grateful oppressed: ideology in James Joyce’s Dubliners’; Claire A Culleton, ‘Taking the biscuit: narrative cheekiness in Dubliners’; John Paul Riquelme, ‘Joyce’s “The Dead”: the dissolution of the self and the police’; Raffaella Baccolini, ‘She had become a memory: women as memory in James Joyce’s Dubliners’; Marlena G. Corcoran, ‘Language, character, and gender in the direct discourse of Dubliners’; David Leon Higdon, ‘Gendered discourse and the structure of Joyce’s “The Dead”’; Ulrich Schneider, ‘Title in Dubliners’; Michael Brian, ‘Very fine piece of writing: an etymological, Dantean, and gnostic reading of Joyce’s “Ivy day in the committee room”’; Lucia Boldrini, ‘Artist paring his quotations: aesthetic and ethical implication of the Dantean intertext in Dubliners’; Lucia Boldrini. Gnomon inverted’. [Available online .pdf; accessed 23.04.2021.]

Margot Norris, A Companion to James Joyce’s Ulysses: Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Perspectives [Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, ed. Ross C. Murfin] (Boston & NY: Bedford Books [St. Martin’s] 1998), xii, 255pp. [CONTENTS: Introduction; Biographical and Historical Contexts: A Critical History of Ulysses. Deconstruction and Ulysses; What is Deconstruction?; Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography. A Deconstruction Perspective - Jacques Derrida, ‘Ulysses Gramophone: Hear say yes in Joyce’; Reader-Response Criticism and Ulysses: What is Reader-Response Criticism? Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Reader-Response Perspective - Wolfgang Iser, ‘Patterns of Communication in Joyce’s Ulysses’. Feminist and Gender Criticism and Ulysses: What are Feminist and Gender Criticism? Feminist and Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography; A Gender Perspective: Vicki Mahaffey, ‘Ulysses and the End of Gender. Psychoanalytic Criticism and Ulysses: What is Psychoanalytic Criticism? Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Psychoanalytic Perspective: Kimberly J. Devlin. ‘I Saw that Picture Somewhere’: Tracking the Symptom of the Sisters of Lazarus’, Marxist Criticism and Ulysses - What is Marxist Criticism? Marxist Criticism - A Selected Bibliography. A Marxist Perspective: Patrick. McGee, ‘“Heavenly Bodies”: Ulysses and the Ethics of Marxism/ Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms; About the Contributors.]

Marilyn Reizbaum, James Joyce’s Judaic Other (Stanford UP 1999), x, 194pp. CONTENTS: 1. The Historical Context for Joyce”s “Other” and the Thematics of Jewishness; 2. A Nightmare of History: Ireland’s Jews and Joyce’s Texts; 3. A Poetics of Jewishness; 4. The Temptation of Circe; 5. A Pisgah Sight of the Promised Land; Appendix. Joyce’s Jewish-Related Materials. [See extract under Joyce, > Commentary - infra.]

Wim Tigges, ed., Moments of Moment: Aspects of the Literary Epiphany [Costerus Ser.] (Amsterdam/Atlanta Rodopi 1999), 496pp. - incls. Christine van Boheemen-Saaf, ‘Epiphany and Postcolonial Affect’; Dermot Kelly, ‘Joycean Epiphany in Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark’, &c.; others discussed incl. Wordsworth, Blake, Ann Radcliffe, George Moore, W. B. Yeaets, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Beckett, Proust, Larkin, Heaney and Stanley Kubrick - as well as Gothic fiction in general.

Michael Patrick Gillespie, ed., Joyce Through the Ages: A Nonlinear View (Florida UP 1999), 215pp. CONTENTS: Michael Patrick Gillespie, ‘James Joyce and the Consumption of History’; Jean Kimball, ‘Growing up Together: Joyce and Psychoanalysis, 1900-1922’; Peter Francis Mackey, ‘Chaos Theory and the Heroism of Leopold Bloom’; Roy Gottfried, ‘Adolescence, Humor, and Adolescent Humor: One Way of Carving a Turkey’; Pericles Lewis, ‘Conscience of the Race: The Nation as Church of the Modern Age’; Michael H. Begnal, ‘Stephen, Simon, and Eileen Vance: Autoeroticism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’; Tara Williams, ‘Polysymbolic Character: Irish and Jewish Folklore in the Apparition of Rudy’; Heyward Ehrlich, ‘Inventing Patrimony: Joyce, Mangan, and the Self-inventing Self’; Vivian Valvano Lynch, ‘Joyce Redux: Success and Failure as Three American Writers Evoke Joyce’; Sandra Manoogian Pearce, ‘Snow Through the Ages: Echoes of “The Dead” in O’Brien, Lavin, and O’Faolain’; John Gordon, ‘Joyce’s Hitler’.