Table of Contents

List of illustrations and cartoon figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes on contributors; Editors' introduction; 1. The 1989 conference: a retrospect Timothy Martin; Part I. Modernist Context: 2. Is there a case against Ulysses? Denis Donoghue; 3. Woolf and Joyce: reading and revision Johanna X. K. Garvey; 4. Joyce and Ford Madox Ford Vincent J. Cheng; 5. Joyce and Freud: discontent and its civilizations Brian W. Shaffer; Part II. The Context of the Other: 6. Joyce on the Margins: cheating on the father: Joyce and gender justice in Ulysses Colleen R. Lamos; 7. Demythologising nationalism: Joyce's dialogised grail myth Theresa O'Connor; 8. Joyce and Michelet: why watch Molly menstruate? Bonnie Kime Scott; 9. Re-visioning Joyce's masculine signature Suzette Henke; Part III. Contexts For Joyce: 10. 'Scrupulous Meanness' reconsidered: Dubliners as stylistic parody Roy Gottfried; 11. Joyce and Lacan: the twin narratives of history and history in the 'Nestor' chapter of Ulysses Garry M. Leonard; 12. Joyce and Homer: return, disguise, and recognition in 'Ithaca' Constance V. Tagopoulos; 13. James Joyce and cartoons Daniel Schiff; Part IV. Re-Reading Joyce: 14. Joyce in his own Context: Refining himself out of existence: the evolution of Joyce's esthetic theory and the drafts of A Portrait Ian Crump; 15. Entering the lists: sampling early catalogues Fritz Senn; 16. Cataloguing in Finnegans Wake: counting countries Bernard Benstock; Translating Ulysses, east and west Di Jin.

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This challenging collections of essays by an international team of scholars aims to put the work of James Joyce in context.