Richard Brown 
A Companion to James Joyce 

A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite
overview and analysis of Joyce’s writing, his global image, and his
growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures.

* Brings together 25 newly-commissioned essays by some of the top
scholars in the field

* Explores Joyce’s distinctive cultural place in Irish, British
and European modernism and the growing impact of his work elsewhere
in the world

* A comprehensive and timely Companion to current debates and
possible areas of future development in Joyce studies

* Offers new critical readings of several of Joyce’s works,
including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man, and Ulysses

Table of Content

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Notes on Contributors xiii

List of Abbreviations and Editions Used xvii

1 Introduction: Re-readings, Relocations, and Receptions 1

Richard Brown

Part I Re-reading Texts 17

2 Dubliners: Surprised by Chance 19

Vicki Mahaffey

3 Desire, Freedom, and Confessional Culture in A Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Man 34

John Paul Riquelme

4 Ulysses: The Epic of the Human Body 54

Maud Ellmann

5 Finnegans Wake: Novel and Anti-novel 71

Finn Fordham

Part II Contexts and Locations 91

6 European Joyce 93

Geert Lernout

7 ‘In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis’? Joyce’s Reception
in Ireland, 1900-1940 108

John Nash

8 His città immediata: Joyce’s Triestine Home
from Home 123

John Mc Court

9 James Joyce and German Literature, or Refl ections on the
Vagaries and Vacancies of Reception Studies 137

Robert K. Weninger

10 Molly’s Gibraltar: The Other Location in Joyce’s
Ulysses 157

Richard Brown

11 Joyce and Postcolonial Theory: Analytic and Tropical Modes
174

Mark Wollaeger

12 ‘United States of Asia’: James Joyce and Japan 193

Eishiro Ito

13 Where Agni Arafl ammed and Shiva Slew: Joyce’s Interface with
India 207

Krishna Sen

14 Joyce and New Zealand: Biography, Censorship, and Infl uence
223

David G. Wright

Part III Approaches and Receptions 239

15 Joyce’s Homer, Homer’s Joyce 241

Declan Kiberd

16 The Joyce of French Theory 254

Jean-Michel Rabaté

17 Joyce, Music, and Popular Culture 270

R. Brandon Kershner

18 The Joyce of Manuscripts 286

Daniel Ferrer

19 Joyce’s Bridge to Late Twentieth-Century British Theater:
Harold Pinter’s Dialogue with Exiles 300

Mark Taylor-Batty

20 The Joyce Effect: Joyce in Visual Art 318

Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes

21 ‘In his secondmouth language’: Joyce and Irish Poetry
341

Derval Tubridy

22 ‘Ghostly Light’: Spectres of Modernity in James Joyce’s and
John Huston’s ‘The Dead’ 359

Luke Gibbons

23 Joyce through the Little Magazines 374

Katherine Mullin

24 Joyce and Radio 390

Jane Lewty

25 Scotographia: Joyce and Psychoanalysis 407

Luke Thurston

Index 427

About the author

Richard Brown is Reader in Modern Literature in the School of English at the University of Leeds. As well as a wide variety of articles on Joyce and other areas, Brown has published three books on the author: James Joyce and Sexuality (1985), James Joyce: A Postculturalist Perspective (1992), and Joyce, ‘Penelope’ and the Body (2006). Since 1980 he has been co-editor of the James Joyce Broadsheet, a journal which continues to publish articles, book reviews, illustrations, news, and other material connected to the work of Joyce, three times a year. He currently serves as an elected Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation.