Joycean Legacies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Introduction

   • Martha C. Carpentier

   Pages 1-10

3. Kate O’Brien, James Joyce, and the ‘Lonely Genius’

   • Elizabeth Foley O’Connor

   Pages 11-32

4. Thanks Be To Joyce: Brendan Behan à Paris

   • Thomas O’Grady

   Pages 33-53

5. Houses of Decay: Joyce, History, and J.G. Farrell’s Troubles

   • Steven Morrison

   Pages 54-70

6. Adaptations of Joyce in the Fiction of Patrick McCabe

   • Ellen McWilliams

   Pages 71-91

7. The Nightmare of History in George Orwell’s A Clergyman’s Daughter

   • Ruth Hoberman

   Pages 92-111

8. ‘Bizarre or dream like’: J.R.R. Tolkien on Finnegans Wake

   • Margaret Hiley

   Pages 112-126

9. The ‘Baroque Weaving Machine’: Contrasting Counterpoint in James Joyce and Anthony Burgess

   • Jim Clarke

   Pages 127-149

10. Wars Waged With/Against Joyce: James Joyce and Post-1984 British Fiction

    • David Vichnar

    Pages 150-171

11. Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and the Joycean Bildungsroman

    • Martha C. Carpentier

    Pages 172-193

12. ‘A Stone in Place of a Heart’: The Influence of James Joyce on the Late Style of Raymond Carver

    • Nathan Oates

    Pages 194-212

13. Imagining the ‘wettest indies’: The Transatlantic Network of James Joyce and Derek Walcott

    • Maria McGarrity

    Pages 213-229

14. An Artistic Metempsychosis: James Joyce’s and Sadeq Hedayat’s Nonlinear and Chaotic Imagination

    • Leila Baradaran Jamili, Bahman Zarrinjooee

    Pages 230-257

15. Back Matter

    Pages 258-265

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These twelve essays analyze the complex pleasures and problems of engaging with James Joyce for subsequent writers, discussing Joyce's textual, stylistic, formal, generic, and biographical influence on an intriguing selection of Irish, British, American, and postcolonial writers from the 1940s to the twenty-first century.

• James Joyce
• Joycean Studies
• Modernism
• fiction
• George Orwell
• history of literature
• British and Irish Literature

“The essays in this collection draw upon letters, unpublished papers and personal accounts to offer valuable insights into each author’s personal encounter with Joyce. … Undoubtedly a splendid opening, this collection might best be followed by more specialised studies of Joycean influence in certain spheres: twentieth century American and Latin American novelists, for example. An undergraduate or casual reader may also find that the well-edited Joycean Legacies renders the seemingly ‘impossible question’ of Joyce’s impact and influence far more approachable.” (Tobias Harris, James Joyce Broadsheet, Issue 104, June, 2016)

“The volume as a whole succeeds in sketching a panorama of Joycean influences which casts a light on the complexities of inheritance and tradition – especially when that tradition is predicated upon innovation and ‘the new’. … Joycean Legacy is faithful to this intent …  and is definitely worth reading for all those who wish to encompass the ramifications of Joyce’s hypertextual resonances – whether deliberate or accidental – and the problems set by his institutionalization.” (Philippe Birgy, Miranda, miranda.revues.org, 2016)

“For anyone working in the field of Joyce and subsequent literature it goes without saying this book is a necessity. It has started a legacy all of its own, and long may it be added legs by more and more such work being condensed into collective or single-author studies on this very subject. A timely tome on Joyce’s enduring timelessness.” (Daniel Bristow, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 24 (2), 2016)

• Seton Hall University, USA

  Martha C. Carpentier

Derek Attridge, University of York, UK Jim Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ruth Hoberman, Eastern Illinois University, USA Margaret Hiley, Independent Scholar, UK Maria McGarrity, Long Island University, New York, USA Ellen McWilliams, University of Exeter, UK Steven Morrison, Independent Scholar, UK Nathan Oates, Seton Hall University, USA Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, Washington College in Chestertown, USA Thomas O'Grady, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA David Vichnar, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Leila Baradaran Jamili, Islamic Azad University, Iran Bahman Zarrinjooee, Islamic Azad University, Iran

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