Career, life, and influence : On Joyce: the steep cost of the truth / Albert Wachtel -- Critical contents : "Dear dirty Dublin": historical and cultural contexts for James Joyce's fiction / Maureen O'Connor ; Joyce, Irish, and English: the problem of language / Tony Crowley ; The life of Joyce's texts and the texture of Joyce's life / Tara Prescott -- Critical readings : Young Joyce: the something missing that cries out for discovery / Albert Wachtel ; "Mrkgnao!": signifying animals in the fiction of James Joyce / Maureen O'Connor ; How to deconstruct Joyce: epiphany and the woman in the sea in A portrait of the artist as a young man / Peter Wagner ; Joyce, Byron, and the fall of Seraphim / Albert Wachtel ; "That's for the church to say": Catholicism in Joyce / Parker Douglas ; Showers of atoms: Joyce's theories of literature in context / Tara Prescott ; Deep focus, the complex universe of Joyce's Ulysses / Albert Wachtel ; Finnegans wake: Joyce's final gift / Edmund L. Epstein.