Reading Joyce Book

List of illustrations     ix
Acknowledgements     xv
Abbreviations     xvii
Introduction     1
Opening remarks
Difficulty and delay
Snapshots of Joyce
Home, sweet home
1904: Joyce's point of departure     35
Colonial contexts
At 22
Stephen Daedalus
Myths and reality
Defiance and displacement
The unfinished sentences of 'The Sisters'     69
Unfinished sentences
Ritual and folklore
Humour
Saying goodbye in 'Eveline'     89
Emigration
The language of 'Eveline'
Blinds and railings in 'Araby' and 'Two Gallants'     108
'Araby'
'Two Gallants'
Teaching Dubliners     128
Handouts
Student responses
Writing and politics
Series
All the living and the dead
On A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man     156
Title, epigraph, orientation
Once upon a time
The interior space
In the beginning was the word
The subject in language
Joyce among the Jesuits
Approaching Ulysses     187
On reading Ulysses for the first time
Structure
Getting help
Thalatta! Thalatta! - an epiphany
Homer
Boul' Mich', Paris
Wild Geese
Anti-clericalism
Leopold Bloom at home and at work     222
7 Eccles Street
Gesabo
A regulated world
The Freeman's Journal
Student responses to Molly Bloom     267
A female gorilla or a slapper?
The German Emperor
A literarybombshell
Breathless
The novel to end all novels
Figuring out Finnegans Wake     301
An unknown cargo
Preliminary notes
The Earwickers of Sidlesham
The paradigmatic ear
Closing moments
Afterword     333
Select bibliography     340
Index     351