Joyces Non-Fiction Writings: Outside His Jurisfiction [Hardcover]

This book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyces 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 Joyces non-fiction, but as a contribution to similar debates being carried out across the broad range of modernist studies.

1. Introduction; Katherine Ebury and James Fraser.- 2. Please, Mr. Postman: Joyces 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: Joyces 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 Bo~i.- 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.

This collection will be a touchstone for those interested in engaging in critical questions about Joyces nonfiction. It accomplishes its core mission, & proving that the habitual distinction between nonfiction and fiction is dlc"