Joyce Without Borders

This book addresses James Joyce's borderlessness and

the ways his work crosses or unsettles boundaries of all kinds. The essays in

this volume position borderlessness as a major key to understanding Joycean

poiesis, opening new doors and new engagements with his work.



Contributors begin by exploring the circulation of

Joyce's writing in Latin America via a transcontinental network of writers and translators,

including Jos? Lezama Lima, Jos? Salas Subirat, Leopoldo Marechal, Edmundo

Desno?s, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Augusto Monterroso. Essays then consider Joyce through the lens of the

sciences, presenting theoretical interventions on posthumanist parasitology in Ulysses; on Giordano Bruno's coincidence

of opposites in Finnegans Wake; and

on algorithmic agency in the Wake.

Cutting-edge cognitive narratology is applied to the "Penelope" episode.



Next, the volume features innovative essays on Joyce

in relation to early animated film and comics, engaging with animated film in

the "Circe" episode, Joyce's points of contact with George Herriman's cartoon

strip Krazy Kat, and structural

affinities between open-world gaming and Finnegans

Wake. The final essays focus on abiding human concerns, offering new

research on Joyce's creative use of "spicy books"; a Lacanian consideration of

"The Dead" alongside Katherine Mansfield's "The Stranger" and Haruki Murakami's

"Kino"; and a meditation on Joyce's uncertainties about the boundary between

life and death.



For

Joyce, borders are problems--but

ones that provided precious fodder for his art. And as this volume

demonstrates, they encourage brilliant reflections on his work, from new

scholars to leading luminaries in the field.



A

volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles