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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Joyce Studies Annual.daily12026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 12 (2001) through current issueLatest Articles: Joyce Studies AnnualTWOProject MUSE®Joyce Studies Annual1538-42411049-0809Latest articles in Joyce Studies Annual. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Insular Internationality: On the Inquiries of James Joyce and David Jones Anna Livia's Anathemata
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987181
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In their compellingly instigative contribution to Regional Modernisms, John Goodby and Chris Wigginton offer an intriguing, maybe even incensing, reevaluation of Welsh modernist poetry. The scholars' thesis urges their readers toward a reconsideration of modernist canon:"Welsh modernist poetry" would seem to be something of a category error. The term has almost no critical currency—unlike, say, Irish or Scottish modernism—and there might seem at first glance to be little need for it. … In the last ten years, however, a start has been made on assessing the impact of modernism on mid-twentieth century Anglophone Welsh poetry. This essay builds on that work, and its most provocative suggestion: that, of all the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/101/image/coversmallInsular Internationality: On the Inquiries of James Joyce and David Jones Anna Livia's Anathemata2026-04-09text/htmlen-USInsular Internationality: On the Inquiries of James Joyce and David Jones Anna Livia's Anathemata2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®1045222026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09Joyce's Reception in Early Soviet Russia
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987182
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When surveying the vast body of scholarship on James Joyce's global reception, one rarely finds a blank space. New studies continue to map his influence across Europe, the Americas, and even parts of Asia. These accounts often follow a familiar trajectory: from translation to circulation to critical and creative response. Yet such approaches often take for granted a certain premise: that Joyce was translated to begin with.In early Soviet Russia, Joyce was not merely absent from literary discourse; he was actively excluded. Official denunciations, aborted translation projects, and bureaucratic erasure ensured that Joyce entered the Soviet cultural consciousness only in fragments at a time—if at all. And yet, this
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/101/image/coversmallJoyce's Reception in Early Soviet Russia2026-04-09text/htmlen-USJoyce's Reception in Early Soviet Russia2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®742142026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09Found in Translation: Recent Latin American Ulysses
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987183
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In the 1929 essay "Surrealism: Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia," Walter Benjamin suggests that to gauge the energies of a movement or a work, critics should position themselves at a distance from it: not at the head of the stream but in the valley, to see how far it carries and what it is capable of powering further afield (208).1 He puts a temporal spin on this spatial argument in the 1939 essay "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire," where he posits that the meaning of a work necessarily includes the story of its subsequent readings; we cannot fully understand a work, Benjamin insists, without also understanding what it has meant to others (what Baudelaire meant to Proust, for instance [197]).2 Or as Jorge
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/101/image/coversmallFound in Translation: Recent Latin American Ulysses2026-04-09text/htmlen-USFound in Translation: Recent Latin American Ulysses2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®833132026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09"Who?": Locating Joyce's Transnational Women
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987185
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From the question-word incipit of Giacomo Joyce, a text unfolds that is all glance and afterimage, its central female figure evoked through epiphanic accumulation yet never explicitly named. "Who?" (GJ 1) functions less as question than as summons—is less interrogative than incantatory. And yet, from the moment of the work's publication, readers have been encouraged to treat this beginning not as literary invocation but as biographical cue: to follow the question back to a presumed origin in lived experience, as if the opener were an endpoint and the task to recover what preceded it. For decades, Richard Ellmann's identification of the subject with one of Joyce's young pupils in Trieste has provided a fragile
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/101/image/coversmall"Who?": Locating Joyce's Transnational Women2026-04-09text/htmlen-US"Who?": Locating Joyce's Transnational Women2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®937782026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09Across the Words: Joyce's Legacy in There but for the by Ali Smith
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987186
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During her postgraduate years at Cambridge (1985–90), Ali Smith was writing her doctoral thesis on modernism. At that time, she hardly anticipated that one day critics would define her as both "Scotland's Nobellaureate-in-waiting"1 and a "modern modernist."2 At that point, her writings consisted mainly of poems and plays, yet when Smith turned to the novel, things started to change. She grew increasingly prolific, and her work began to be acknowledged while achieving critical recognition. Today, Ali Smith is a multiple award-winning, bestselling author, translated into forty languages. In 2013 a pioneering study appeared entitled, Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, edited by Monica Germanà and Emily
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/101/image/coversmallAcross the Words: Joyce's Legacy in There but for the by Ali Smith2026-04-09text/htmlen-USAcross the Words: Joyce's Legacy in There but for the by Ali Smith2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®928402026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09"She's Apples": Food, Trade, and Australia in Joyce
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987187
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Food in Ireland is political. "In the wake of the Great Famine … Irish attitudes about food, land, and bodies were seriously altered," writes Miriam O'Kane Mara in "James Joyce and the Politics of Food"; therefore, the "understanding of the famine as a political symbol for English oppression politicized Irish eating behaviors and intensified food as a way to mark identity."1 As the Famine effected the politicization of food in Ireland, and as Joyce was living in its wake, references to food in Ulysses can be read through a political lens, one often critical of England's hegemonic role in the production, consumption, and sale of Irish foodstuffs. Matthew Hayward writes in "Invalid Port: The Politics of Consumption
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/101/image/coversmall"She's Apples": Food, Trade, and Australia in Joyce2026-04-09text/htmlen-US"She's Apples": Food, Trade, and Australia in Joyce2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®754782026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09"Life Is Suspended in Doubt": Exiles, the Revolutionary Period, and the Creation of Finnegans Wake
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987188
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If James Joyce's Ulysses is typically understood as an encyclopedic journey through Dublin, it is less familiarly conceived of as bookended by a transimperial network of seaports. The novel sets its scene at the Martello tower of "Telemachus," one of many Napoleonic-era relics built by "Billy Pitt" (U 1.543) to protect Ireland's coast against French invaders. This image of British naval might is reflected and refracted in the final pages of Molly Bloom's monologue in "Penelope" in a diptych of Howth and Gibraltar, respectively, the site of a clash between the Irish Volunteers and the British Army over nationalist gunrunning in 1914 and the heavily fortified entrance to the Mediterranean central in the British
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/101/image/coversmall"Life Is Suspended in Doubt": Exiles, the Revolutionary Period, and the Creation of Finnegans Wake2026-04-09text/htmlen-US"Life Is Suspended in Doubt": Exiles, the Revolutionary Period, and the Creation of Finnegans Wake2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®1005282026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09Introduction: Reading Joyce, Reading Transnationalism
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987189
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Where?•As we there are where are we are we there unde et ubi. from tomtittot to teetootomtotalitarian.In Joyce's texts we can see repeated attempts at finding a location for the individual and/or the collective consciousness, and these attempts are often fraught with ambiguity, since they rarely yield definitive resolutions in the form of a fixed location and usually generate results suffused with dynamic movements from the provincial to the planetary. For instance, at the end of "Ithaca," after a long day of adventures in Dublin when Leopold Bloom finally returns home and falls asleep next to Molly, one would assume that this moment would constitute stillness at the end of Bloom's Odyssean journey. But we are
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/101/image/coversmallIntroduction: Reading Joyce, Reading Transnationalism2026-04-09text/htmlen-USIntroduction: Reading Joyce, Reading Transnationalism2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®686192026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09"The Fall of Icarus": Joycean Features in Itō Sei's Modernist Short Story "Ikarusu Shittsui"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987190
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Itō Sei (1905–69)1 was such an important literary figure in Japan that when he passed away in 1969, Kawabata Yasunari, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in the previous year, served as a chairperson of the organizing committee of his funeral. After having debuted as a poet with his collection Yukiakari no michi (The Lane Shone with Snow Light, 1926), Itō remained an influential figure in the Japanese literary world until his death in 1969. However, in the afterword to his monograph on Itō published in 1992, Satō Kōichi states that Itō had become a "minor" writer.2 In fact, most of the bunkobon (Japanese-style paperback) editions of Itō's works are out of print today because few read him at present.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/101/image/coversmall"The Fall of Icarus": Joycean Features in Itō Sei's Modernist Short Story "Ikarusu Shittsui"2026-04-09text/htmlen-US"The Fall of Icarus": Joycean Features in Itō Sei's Modernist Short Story "Ikarusu Shittsui"2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®756762026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09A Reading Group Is the Same People Reading the Same Book: Joyce Reading Groups and Transnationalism
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987191
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"Joyce implies," Richard Ellmann writes in Ulysses on the Liffey, "that art is not self-isolation, that it depends upon recognition of other existences as well as one's own."1 For many readers of Joyce, this holds true not only for the artist, but for the audience of that artist, as well. Reading, for these readers, is not self-isolation. Joyce reading groups—specifically those that focus on either Ulysses or Finnegans Wake—are a notable feature of Joyce's contemporary reception outside of scholarly circles. These groups, referred to hereafter as JJRGs, are distinct from traditional book clubs in both their focus on a single author and, often, their focus on a single text rather than the series of texts one might
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/101/image/coversmallA Reading Group Is the Same People Reading the Same Book: Joyce Reading Groups and Transnationalism2026-04-09text/htmlen-USA Reading Group Is the Same People Reading the Same Book: Joyce Reading Groups and Transnationalism2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®803612026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09Preface
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987192
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For this 2025 issue of Joyce Studies Annual, Shinjini Chattopadhyay has curated and edited eleven essays devoted to the topic of James Joyce and "Networks of Transnationality." Shinjini Chattopadhyay, who received her PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 2022, is currently Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a scholar of modernism who works at the intersection of transnational modernism, blue humanities, British and Irish studies, Woolf studies, and Joyce studies. She has published a number of essays on Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (in James Joyce Quarterly and in book collections, most recently "River, Sea, Rain: Bodies of Water in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/101/image/coversmallPreface2026-04-09text/htmlen-USPreface2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®86382026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09Joyce's Wartime Verse in Poetry Magazine
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987193
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The poet who uses English today addresses a larger potential audience than any predecessor of whatever race. He has a greater chance to become the mouthpiece of that collective imagination which even the gods can not resist. Think of the little isolated world that Homer addressed—or Sophocles, Virgil, Dante. Think of Shakespeare's little England, of Pope's little London, of the tightly guarded island ramparts around Coleridge and Keats. Today a wee small song in Winnipeg may be megaphoned to the ends of the earth, and a note struck in Oklahoma may ring brazen bells in Peking.This essay approaches the topic of transnationalism through the lens of periodical culture.1 Much attention has been paid to the way Ulysses
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/101/image/coversmallJoyce's Wartime Verse in Poetry Magazine2026-04-09text/htmlen-USJoyce's Wartime Verse in Poetry Magazine2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®1768882026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09Pell-Mell Tolstoy
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987194
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This essay considers how what Ellmann calls Joyce's "pell-mell" reading1 through Tolstoy yields transnational intertextual connections not only to Tolstoy's essays but to his literary works, connections that have been largely neglected and that, when considered, extend our understanding of Joyce as a "writing reader"2 and of Ulysses as a "book of books."3 Russian literature achieved "extraordinary transnational reach" in the early twentieth century, as shown most recently by Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context (2024), and Tolstoy's influence as an author and moral thinker in the period would be difficult to overestimate.4 While Joyce is by no means unique among modernist writers in engaging with
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/101/image/coversmallPell-Mell Tolstoy2026-04-09text/htmlen-USPell-Mell Tolstoy2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®1284622026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09