Description
This book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyce’s non-fictional writings. Rather than simply proposing or applying new methodologies, it historicises and reconceives the critical assumptions that have shaped scholarly approaches to these works for over half a century, showing that non-fiction as a categorical distinction, no matter how sensible it appears, crumbles under closer inspection. Bringing into conversation a group of key Joyce scholars, this volume acts not only as a vital reimagining of our critical relationship to Joyce’s non-fiction, but as a contribution to similar debates being carried out across the broad range of modernist studies.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; Katherine Ebury and James Fraser.- 2. Please, Mr. Postman: Joyce’s Expanding Epistolary Novel; Michael Groden.- 3. “He chronicled with patience”: Early Joycean Progressions between Non-Fictionality and Fiction; Hans Walter Gabler.- 4. Tracing the Curve of an Emotion: Joyce’s Early “Portrait” Essay; Terence Killeen.- 5. Is It Joyce We Are Reading?: Nonfiction, Authorship and Digital Humanities; Kevin Barry with Kevin Feeney, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Bojan Božić.- 6. James Joyce as Cultural Critic; Emer Nolan.- 7. Into the West: Joyce on Aran; John McCourt.- 8. Writing Journalism, Writing Betrayal: The Formation of a Journalistic Voice; James Fraser.- 9. Becoming-animal in the Epiphanies: Joyce Between Fiction and Non-Fiction; Katherine Ebury.- 10. For Frankness’ Sake’: Confessional Structures in Giacomo Joyce; JT Welsch.
