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This collection of essays prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, records the ways in which James Joyce's work has been received, translated and published in different areas of Europe. Joyce is now widely considered one of the the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The impact of his work has been significant not only in the English-speaking world, but also in many European literatures. The essays in this collection explore the reception of Joyce in Germany, Russia, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Ireland.

Author Biography

Geert Lernout is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Director of the James Joyce Centre. He has published The French Joyce (1990) and Iets Anders: De GoldBerg-Varieties van Bach (2001). Wim Van Mierlo is a Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University and an expert on literary archives, textual scholarship and scholarly editing, and the work of James Joyce and W. B. Yeats. He is currently President of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and a member of the Advisory Board of the James Joyce Quarterly.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Timeline: The European Reception of James Joyce; Introduction; Part I: Germany, Northern and East Central Europe; 1. James Joyce in German-speaking Countries: The Early Reception, 1919-1945; Robert Weninger (Oxford Brookes University); 2. The Institutionalization of Joyce: James Joyce in (West) Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 1945 to the Present, Robert Weninger (Oxford Brookes University); 3. The Disintegration of Stalinist Cultural Dogmatism: James Joyce in East Germany, 1945 to the Present, Wolfgang Wicht (University of Potsdam); 4. Late Arrivals: James Joyce in Iceland; Astradur Eysteinsson (University of Reykjavik); 5. The Reception of James Joyce in Norway; Bjorn Tysdahl (University of Oslo); 6. The Reception of James Joyce in Denmark; Jacob Greve (University of Copenhagen), and Steen Klitgard Povlsen; 7. Blooms in the North: The Translations of Ulysses in Finland and Sweden; H.K. Riikonen (University of Helsinki); 8. Diluted Joyce: Good Old Hollands and Water; Onno Kosters and Ron Hoffman; 9. An Excessive, Catholic Heretic from a Nation in Danger: James Joyce in Flemish Literature; Geert Buelens; 10. The Reception of James Joyce in Slovenia; Ales Pogacnik and Tomo Virk, (University of Ljubljana); 11. The Reception of James Joyce in Croatia; Sonja Basic (University of Zagreb); 12. The Czech and Slovak Reception of James Joyce; Bohuslav Manek; 13. 'Le sens du pousser': On the Spiral of Joyce's Reception in Romania; Adrian Otoiu (North University of Baia Mare, Romania); 14. Inter-war Romania: Misinterpreting Joyce and Beyond; Arleen Ionescu; 15. The Reception of James Joyce in Poland; Jolanta Wawrzycka (Radford University); 16. The Impact of Joyce's 'Ulysses' on Polish Literature Between the Wars; Thomas Anessi; 17. The Reception of James Joyce in Bulgaria; Kalina Filipova (University of Sofia); 18. The Reception of James Joyce in the Soviet Union; Emily Tall (University of Buffalo); Bibliography Part II: Italy, France and Mediterranean Europe; 19. Joyce Reception in Trieste: The Shade of Joyce; Eric Bulson (Columbia University); 20. The Triestine Joyce; John McCourt (University of Trieste); 21. James Joyce among the Italian Writers; Serenella Zanotti (University of Rome); 22. 'Apres mot, le deluge' 1: Critical Response to Joyce in France; Sam Slote (University of Buffalo); 23. 'Apres mot, le deluge' 2: Literary and Theoretical Responses to Joyce in France; Sam Slote (University of Buffalo); 24. French Joyce: Portrait an of Oeuvre; Patrick O'Neill (Queens University, Canada); 25. A Survey of the Spanish Critical Responses to James Joyce; Alberto Lazaro (University of Alcala, Madrid); 26. Joycean Aesthetics in Spanish Literature; Marisol Morales Ladron (University of Alcala, Madrid); 27. The Reception of James Joyce in Catalonia; Teresa Iribarren (University of Barcelona); 28. Hellenize it: James Joyce in Greece; Miltos Pechlivanos and Jina Politi (Aristotle University, Greece); 29. James Joyce's Influence on Writers in Irish; Frank Sewell (University of Ulster); Bibliography; Index

Review

"This sumptuous, richly informative and engrossing collection of essays has a great deal to tell us. It is a very fine advertisement for reception studies, and should convince any doubters of their intrinsic usefulness. It is of major significance to anyone concerned with modern European cultural history. The volumes are packed with intriguing details...Part of the appeal of these volumes, then, lies in the 'magpies' nest' effect, the sheer, glittering heterogeneity of interesting material with which they present us...[A] splendid collection of essays." -- Andrew Gibson, Comparative Critical Studies
"...the work stands as a gripping analysis of the kaleidoscope responses to Joyce throughout Europe's communities across numerous historical and political periods. "...The Reception of James Joyce in Europe offers a remarkable collection of scintillating essays providing rigorous information and scholarly illumination. The work makes a major contribution to Joyce studies, enriching the field with new perspectives from reception studies, comparative literature, and translation studies. Ultimately, The Reception of James Joyce in Europe undermines those attitudes and critical tendencies that have turned Joyce into the patrimony of an exclusive Anglo-American club. This is a highly recommended book for scholars willing to experience a (European) epiphany."- M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera, James Joyce Quarterly, Vol.44 No. 1 -- James Joyce Quarterly
"meticulously detailed, wide-ranging study...The Reception of James Joyce in Europe...offers a rich, suggestive and densely informative contribution both to our understanding of Joyce and to our sense of a shared European literary heritage. It raises a wealth of questions about Joyce and how he has been received." -- Katherine Mullin, Journal of European Studies * Journal of European Studies *

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This collection of essays prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, records the ways in which James Joyce's work has been received, translated and published in different areas of Europe. Joyce is now widely considered one of the the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The impact of his work has been significant not only in the English-speaking world, but also in many European literatures. The essays in this collection explore the reception of Joyce in Germany, Russia, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Ireland.>

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"This sumptuous, richly informative and engrossing collection of essays has a great deal to tell us. It is a very fine advertisement for reception studies, and should convince any doubters of their intrinsic usefulness. It is of major significance to anyone concerned with modern European cultural history. The volumes are packed with intriguing details...Part of the appeal of these volumes, then, lies in the 'magpies' nest' effect, the sheer, glittering heterogeneity of interesting material with which they present us...[A] splendid collection of essays."

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