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.
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