James Joyce and the Arts

Joyce's art is an art of idiosyncratic transformation, revision, recycling, and transvaluation. More specifically, the work of his art lies in the act of creative transformation: the art of the paste that makes it new. And so, the transformative artistic act may be original even if its raw material is not. The essays in this volume examine various modalities of the Joycean aesthetic metamorphosis, whether by Joyce engaging with other artists and other arts, or other artists - in a variety of media - engaging with the Joycean aftermath. We have chosen the essays that best show the range of Joycean engagement with multiple artistic domains. Joyce's art is multiform and protean. Influenced by many, it influences many others.