Joycean Unions: Post-Millennial Essays from East to West

Product Description This exciting new volume presents recent research by internationally recognised Joyce scholars from Europe and North America. Entitled Joycean Unions: Post-Millennial Essays from East to West, it pays particular attention to contemporary Eastern and Western European perspectives on the immensely influential work of the Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941). The essays collected in this volume uncover various European sources of inspiration for Joyce's early aesthetic theories, for the "Sirens", "Cyclops", "Circe" and "Eumaeus" episodes of his modernist masterwork Ulysses (1922) and for his last tour de force Finnegans Wake (1939). They present inspiring new ways of reading Joyce's work, re-investigate the fascinating phenomenon of literary "error", and review aspects of Joyce's varied afterlife in Ireland and Eastern Europe. The book will be of interest to scholars, students and the general audience interested in English literature, Modernism, European Studies, Irish Studies and of course the works of James Joyce. Review I was particularly keen to read this collection since much of the material dates from a period before I began to work on Joyce. The excellent book functions well as a record (or for others, a reminder) of these past discussions, while each chapter has, if necessary, been updated to address contemporary critical issues. The work has a lot to offer the reader of Joyce and, in particular, the reader of Ulysses, and I strongly recommend it. -Katherine Ebury, University of Sheffield, in James Joyce Quarterly , vol. 50.3 2013, pp. 853-856"