De-familiarizing Readings: Essays from the Austin Joyce Conference

Unlike many recent Joyce studies, De—familiarizing Readings eschews the theoretical and ideological and instead plants itself on firmer ground. Its seven outstanding Joyce scholars share a love of the “stuff” of texts, contexts, and intertexts: data and dates, food and clothing, letters and journals, literary allusions, and other quotidian desiderata. Their inductive approaches — whether to Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses, or Finnegans Wake — are thoroughly researched, argued wit...