Joyce without Borders

This book addresses James Joyces borderlessness andthe ways his work crosses or unsettles boundaries of all kinds. The essays inthis volume position borderlessness as a major key to understanding Joyceanpoiesis, opening new doors and new engagements with his work. Contributors begin by exploring the circulation ofJoyces writing in Latin America via a transcontinental network of writers and translators,including Jos Lezama Lima, Jos Salas Subirat, Leopoldo Marechal, EdmundoDesnos, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Augusto Monterroso. Essays then consider Joyce through the lens of thesciences, presenting theoretical interventions on posthumanist parasitology in Ulysses; on Giordano Brunos coincidenceof opposites in Finnegans Wake; andon algorithmic agency in the Wake.Cutting-edge cognitive narratology is applied to the Penelope episode. Next, the volume features innovative essays on Joycein relation to early animated film and comics, engaging with animated film inthe Circe episode, Joyces points of contact with George Herrimans cartoonstrip Krazy Kat, and structuralaffinities between open-world gaming and FinnegansWake. The final essays focus on abiding human concerns, offering newresearch on Joyces creative use of spicy books; a Lacanian consideration ofThe Dead alongside Katherine Mansfields The Stranger and Haruki MurakamisKino; and a meditation on Joyces uncertainties about the boundary betweenlife and death.ForJoyce, borders are problemsbutones that provided precious fodder for his art. And as this volumedemonstrates, they encourage brilliant reflections on his work, from newscholars to leading luminaries in the field. Avolume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles