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.