Content: Contents --
Title Page --
Copyright --
Illustrations --
Acknowledgments --
Notes on Contributors --
Abbreviations and Editions Used --
1 Introduction: Re-readings, Relocations, and Receptions --
Re-reading Texts --
Joycean Geographies: Biographical Contexts and Global Relocations --
Critical and Creative Approaches, Receptions, and Responses --
Part I: Re-reading Texts --
2 Dubliners: Surprised by Chance --
3 Desire, Freedom, and Confessional Culture in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man --
Judging the Young Artist: Autobiography, Nationhood, Sexuality A Tale of Confessions and ConstraintsGiving Lip Service to Confession: Desire, Heresy, Literature, Politics --
Confessional Turnings and the Snakes of Ireland --
The Thrill and the End of Confession --
Beyond the Horizon of Confessional Constraints --
4 Ulysses: The Epic of the Human Body --
Inner Organs --
Cloacal Obsessions --
Throwaway Economics --
Returns --
The Flesh Made Word --
5 Finnegans Wake: Novel and Anti-novel --
Duality and Criticism --
The "War on Language" as a Defense of "Active Nature" --
Knowledge and the Resilience of Nature "Look at all the plotsch!" (FW 81 2)"All the charictures in the drame" (FW 302 32) --
Part II: Contexts and Locations --
6 European Joyce --
Joyce's View of His Own Mission --
Artistic Europe in Joyce's Work --
The View from Europe --
Master of Languages --
7 "In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis"? Joyce's Reception in Ireland, 1900-1940 --
Placing Joyce in Histories of Irish Literature --
Reading Joyce before 1922 --
Reading Joyce in the 1920s --
8 His cittaΜ immediata: Joyce's Triestine Home from Home 9 James Joyce and German Literature, or Reflections on the Vagaries and Vacancies of Reception StudiesApproaches to Reception and Influence --
Gustav Freytag as Influence --
The Potential Connection with Heinrich BoΜll --
Ostensible Non-connection with Rilke --
Conclusion --
10 Molly's Gibraltar: The Other Location in Joyce's Ulysses --
The Exegetical Tradition --
The Multi-ethnic Field --
"The B Marche Paris" --
11 Joyce and Postcolonial Theory: Analytic and Tropical Modes --
Analytic and Tropical Modes and the Language of Postcolonialism Deconstruction, Bakhtin, and Postcolonial AppropriationsFamiliar and Unfamiliar Tropes: The Same Anew --
The Analytic and the Psychoanalytic: Bhabha and the Ghosts of History --
From Analytic Cleansing to Tropical Rebirth: Voicing Joyce --
12 "United States of Asia": James Joyce and Japan --
Introduction --
The Rise of the Empire of Japan in Ulysses --
The Early Reception of Joyce in Japan --
The Fall of the Empire of Japan in Finnegans Wake --
Conclusion --
13 Where Agni Araflammed and Shiva Slew: Joyce's Interface with India --
Joyce and India