Joycean Legacies

The primary focus of the twelve essays in this collection is on the craft of James Joyce and the profound challenge it has posed for subsequent writers from the 1940s to the present day. First, each writer's positioning of him or herself in relation to the professed Joycean legacy is discussed, often with reference to archival material, then explication of the creative work illuminates those moments where mere mimicry, parody, or allusion becomes conjoined with original expression to create a new form. Writers as diverse as Kate O'Brien, Brendan Behan, and Frank McCourt pay direct tribute to Joyce's inspiration, while others such as J.G. Farrell, George Orwell, and Patrick McCabe engage with the Joycean critique of history; postmodernists such as Anthony Burgess, Raymond Carver, and Iain Sinclair revisit Joycean linguistic and generic innovation in unexpected ways, while Derek Walcott and Persian modernist Sedaq Hedayat represent two views of Joyce's enduring global legacy. Featuring a Preface by Derek Attridge, the volume will fill a real gap in scholarship on Joyce's complex influence on contemporary literature biographically, textually, stylistically and generically.

Martha C. Carpentier is a Professor at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, USA, where she teaches 20th-century British and Irish literature. She has recently published two studies of Joycean influence in Joyce Studies Annual and is the author of Ritual, Myth, and the Modernist Text: The Influence of Jane Ellen Harrison on Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf.

Preface; Derek Attridge
1. Introduction; Martha C. Carpentier
2. Elizabeth Foley O'Connor; 'Kate O'Brien, James Joyce, and the 'Lonely Genius''
3. Thomas O'Grady; 'Thanks Be To Joyce: Brendan Behan à Paris'
4. Steven Morrison; 'Houses of Decay: Joyce, History, and J.G. Farrell's Troubles'
5. Ellen McWilliams; 'Adaptations of Joyce in the Fiction of Patrick McCabe'
6. Ruth Hoberman; 'Joyce's Nightmare of History in George Orwell's The Clergyman's Daughter'
7. Margaret Hiley; ''Bizarre or dream like': J.R.R. Tolkien on Finnegans Wake'
8. Jim Clarke; 'The Baroque Weaving Machine: Contrasting Counterpoint in James Joyce and Anthony Burgess'
9. David Vichnar; 'Wars Waged With/Against Joyce: James Joyce and Post-1984 British Fiction'
10. Martha C. Carpentier; 'Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and the Joycean Bildungsroman'
11. Nathan Oates; ''A Stone in Place of the Heart': The Influence of James Joyce on the Late Style of Raymond Carver'
12. Maria McGarrity; 'Imagining the 'wettest indies': The Transatlantic Network of James Joyce and Derek Walcott'
13. Leila Baradaran Jamili and Bahman Zarrinjooee; 'An Artistic Metempsychosis: James Joyce's and Sadeq Hedayat's Nonlinear and Chaotic Imagination'
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