1st Edition
Reading James Joyce An Introduction
Introduction
1 Biography
2 Approaching Dubliners
3 Approaching A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4 Approaching Ulysses
5 Approaching Finnegans Wake
6 Approaching the Minor Works
Appendices—Debunking popular myths about Joyce’s writings
I. The Uncle Charles Principle
II. The love life of Bloom and Molly
III. The Dream of Finnegans Wake
IV. Definitions of Modernism and Postmodernism
V. Epiphanies, Epicleti, and Epiclets
VI. Satiric and Serious Joyce: "The Holy Office," "Gas from a Burner," and "A Curious History"
VII. Currency Terms with Selected Examples from Joyce’s Literary Works
Chronology
Bibliography
Miscellaneous: Joyce Foundations and Journals
Biography
A. Nicholas Fargnoli is Professor of English and Dean Emeritus of Humanities at Molloy University in Rockville Centre, New York. He is founder of the Finnegans Wake Society of New York and past president of the James Joyce Society. He has published on James Joyce, William Faulkner, and ethics.
Michael Patrick Gillespie is Professor of English at Florida International University. He has written books on film, literary theory, and the works of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Kennedy.
