Sketches of James Joyce Going Blind

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Addresses from the 2007 International James Joyce Conference
5. A Life with Joyce 3
6. Litigating the Right to Be a Scholar 12
7. Copyright and the Joyce Estate: Legal Issues, Moral Issues, and Unresolved Issues in the Publication of Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake 22
8. Articles
9. Fresh Evidence and Further Complications: Correcting the Text of the Random House 1934 Edition of Ulysses 37
10. He’s Got Bette Davis Eyes: James Joyce and Melodrama 78
11. ‘‘Odd Jobs’’: James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and the Scandal Fragment 105
12. The Russian General, Gargantua, and Writing of ‘‘Wit’s Waste’’ 146
13. 1904: A Space Odyssey 163
14. Irish Nationalism’s Sacrificial Homosociality in Ulysses 172
15. ‘‘Our eyes demand their turn. Let them be seen!’’: The Transcendental Blind Stripling 203
16. Visual Art
17. Sketches of James Joyce Going Blind 229
18. Notes
19. The Finnegans Wake Diagram and Giordano Bruno 235
20. ‘‘Sounding strangely in my ears’’: Foregrounded Words and Joyce’s Revision of ‘‘The Sisters’’ 243
21. Sworn and Forlorn: Chateaubriand’s Atala and Joyce’s ‘‘Eveline’’ 249
22. CONTRIBUTORS 255