“An extraordinary piece of work: ambitious, illuminating, and erudite, exhibiting exceptional elasticity of thought and feeling.”—Vicki Mahaffey, author of Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions “Nelson engages the reader in re-experiencing the phenomena of these absorbing narratives and all the narrative issues she treats. Nelson’s great craft is in reprising them in such a way that her readers can … Continue reading Time and Identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey
Bloomsday 2022: 100 Years of Ulysses
Readers and scholars of the writer James Joyce are marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses on June 16, the day on which the novel takes place in 1904. Bloomsday 2022 marks not only the 100th anniversary, but also a major milestone for the Florida James Joyce Series. After having guided the series through the … Continue reading Bloomsday 2022: 100 Years of Ulysses
Rewriting Joyce’s Europe
“Original, important, and fascinating. Mecsnóber depicts a Joyce whose works reflect his interest in the implications of different typographic styles, the apparent foreignness of diacritical marks, favored languages in emergent nations, proposals for a universal language, and basic English.”—Patrick A. McCarthy, author of Joyce, Family, “Finnegans Wake” “In this impeccably researched study, Mecsnóber elegantly shows how … Continue reading Rewriting Joyce’s Europe
Welcome to Our 2021 MLA Virtual Booth
This year’s Modern Language Association conference will take place virtually January 7-10, 2021. Our virtual booth is open through February 1 and offers great deals on our titles. Use code MLA21 for discount prices and free shipping. Click Here to View all Titles in Our Virtual Booth Read on for highlights and bonus material from this year’s … Continue reading Welcome to Our 2021 MLA Virtual Booth
Welcome to Our 2020 MSA Virtual Booth
This year’s Modernist Studies Association Conference will take place online in October. Our virtual booth is open through December 16 and offers great deals on our Modernist studies titles. Use code MSA20 for discount prices and free shipping. Click Here to View all Titles in Our Virtual Booth Read on for highlights and bonus material … Continue reading Welcome to Our 2020 MSA Virtual Booth
Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake
“Jaurretche uses a skillful examination of the rhetorical, linguistic, psychological, and emotional elements of spirituality to establish the central significance of prayer as a tool for understanding key aspects of Joyce’s compositional strategy in Finnegans Wake.”—Michael Patrick Gillespie, coeditor of Exiles: A Critical Edition Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake shows how James Joyce uses the language … Continue reading Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake
Joyce and Geometry
“A fascinating revelation of the importance of geometry and topography in Joyce’s work. Basing his study on rich close readings and a complex conceptual construction, McMorran connects Joyce’s linguistic experiments with non-linearity to non-Euclidean conceptions of space.”—Valérie Bénéjam, coeditor of Cognitive Joyce “In writing Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, Joyce admitted to being preoccupied with ‘squaring the circle.’ McMorran sees … Continue reading Joyce and Geometry
Panepiphanal World
An Open Access edition of this book was published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. It is available at https://ufdc.ufl.edu/l/AA00070774/00001. “This highly readable and well-written book covers Joyce’s main texts in order to analyze the Irish writer’s art of the epiphany with great acumen and gusto. Panepiphanal World is bound to become a classic … Continue reading Panepiphanal World
Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media
“Insightful perspectives on a diverse selection of modernist-era writers, thinkers, and artists, providing scholars and teachers of literary modernism with a fresh, vital contribution to the evolving field of modernist studies.”—Emily M. Hinnov, coeditor of Communal Modernisms: Teaching Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom “Engaging. The editors have assembled a fine international roster of … Continue reading Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media
Modernism and Food Studies
“This delicious collection traverses the globe—potatoes in Ireland, eggs in New Zealand, mangoes in Bengal—and explores the sensuous qualities of artistic modernism in its many forms. This collection makes a bold and clear case for the theoretical and historical importance of food studies to modernism.”—Catherine Keyser, author of Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern … Continue reading Modernism and Food Studies
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