Companion to James Joyce

- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: Re-readings, Relocations and Receptions: Richard Brown (University of Leeds)

PART I: Re-reading Texts
2. Dubliners: Surprised by Chance: Vicki Mahaffey (University of York)
3. Desire, Freedom and Confessional Culture in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: John Paul Riquelme (Boston University)
4. Ulysses: The Epic of the Human Body: Maud Ellmann (University of Notre Dame)
5. Finnegans Wake: Novel and Anti-novel: Finn Fordham (University of Nottingham)

PART II: Contexts and Locations
6. European Joyce: Geert Lernout (University of Antwerp)
7. "In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis"?: Joyce's Reception in Ireland, 1900-1940: John Nash (Durham University)
8. His città immediata:Joyce's Triestine Home from Home: John McCourt (University of Trieste)
9. Joyce and German Literature: Reflections on the Vagaries and Vacancies of Reception Studies: Robert Weninger (Kings College, London)
10. Molly's Gibraltar: The Other Location in Joyce's Ulysses: Richard Brown (University of Leeds)
11. Joyce and Postcolonial Theory: Analytic and Tropical Modes: Mark Wollaeger (Vanderbilt University)
12. "United States of Asia": James Joyce and Japan: Eishiro Ito (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan)
13. Where Agni Araflammed and Shiva Slew: Joyce's Interface with India: Krishna Sen (University of Calcutta)
14. Joyce and New Zealand: Biography, Censorship and Influence: David G. Wright (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

PART III: Approaches and Receptions
15. Joyce's Homer, Homer's Joyce: Declan Kiberd (University College Dublin)
16. The Joyce of French Theory: Jean-Michel Rabaté (Princeton University)
17. Joyce, Music and Popular Culture: R.Brandon Kershner (University of Florida)
18. The Joyce of Manuscripts: Daniel Ferrer (Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (CNRS-ENS))
19. Joyce's Bridge to Late Twentieth-Century Theatre: Harold Pinter's Dialogue with Exiles: Mark Taylor-Batty

Richard Brown is Reader in Modern Literature in the School of English at the University of Leeds. As well as a wide variety of articles on Joyce and other areas, Brown has published three books on the author: James Joyce and Sexuality (1985), James Joyce: A Postculturalist Perspective (1992), and Joyce, "Penelope" and the Body (2006). Since 1980 he has been co-editor of the James Joyce Broadsheet , a journal which continues to publish articles, book reviews, illustrations, news, and other material connected to the work of Joyce, three times a year. He currently serves as an elected Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation.

"Boasting twenty-five essays by well-known Joyce experts from across the globe, the companion has been designed to serve both as a comprehensive and accessible guide for university students (who will also benefit from the useful 'directions for further reading that feature in every essay), and as an invaluable resource for Joyce experts who will have much to glean from the expanding circuits of scholarship made available here. Above all, the volume is a testament not just to the continuing importance of James Joyce, but also the global ubiquitousness of this modernist icon." (Journal of British Comparative Lit. Association, 1 October 2010)
"Essays offering new riffs and revisions stand out--Vicki Mahaffey on Dubliners, Finn Fordham on Finnegans Wake, Declan Kiberd on the Odyssey, Rabaté on French theory, and Daniel Ferrer on genetic criticism--and one welcomes the contributions of newer scholars, e.g., Katherine Mullin. Recommended." ( Choice , November 2008)

"A diverse collection ... A fascinating discussion of Joyce." ( James Joyce Broadsheet , October 2008)