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Authors: Karen R. Lawrence
ISBN-13: 9780521126830, ISBN-10: 0521126835
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: December 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Karen R. Lawrence

Book Synopsis

Leading scholars examine the international influence of Joyce and the reception and translation of his work.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Acknowledgments
1Introduction: metempsychotic Joyce1
IIrish "Compaliens"
2James Joyce: the mystery of influence11
3Joyce's ghost: the bogey of realism in John McGahern's Amongst Women21
4In Transit: from James Joyce to Brigid Brophy37
IIPostmodern, Postcolonial Transpositions
Contemporary Latin-American fiction
5Cabrera Infante: unruly pupil49
6Barroco Joyce: Jorge Luis Borges's and Jose Lezama Lima's antagonistic readings63
South-Asian Anglophone fiction
7Postcolonial affiliations: Ulysses and All About H. Hatterr97
8Rereading the exodus: Frankenstein, Ulysses, The Satanic Verses, and other postcolonial texts129
Postmodern echo
9The art of memory: Joyce and Perec151
IIITranstextuality
Anna Livia Plurabelle's sisters: reflections on the French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Roumanian translations
10Introduction: Anna Livia Plurabelle's sisters173
11Anna Livia's French bifurcations179
12ALP Deutsch: "ob uberhaupt moglich?"187
13Anna Livia's Italian sister193
14ALP in Roumanian (with some notes on Roumanian in Finnegans Wake and in the notebooks)199
15The Spanish translation of Anna Livia Plurabelle208
Transcultural revolution: Ulysses in China
16The artistic integrity of Joyce's text in translation215
Bibliography
Index

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