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

Joyce in Trieste

An Album of Risky Readings