This book provides readers with in-depth, critical discussions of the life and works of James Joyce. A chronology of Joyce's life, a complete list of Joyce's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided.

Career, life, and influence. On Joyce: the steep cost of the truth -- Critical contexts. "Dear dirty Dublin": historical and cultural contexts for James Joyce's fiction ; Joyce, Irish and English: the problem of language ; The life of Joyce's texts and the texture of Joyce's life -- Critical readings. Young Joyce: the something missing that cries out for discovery ; "Mrkgnao!": signifying animals in the fiction of James Joyce ; How to deconstruct Joyce: epiphany and the woman in the sea in A portrait of the artist as a young man ; Joyce, Byron, and the fall of seraphim ; "That's for the Church to say": Catholicism in Joyce ; Showers of atoms: Joyce's theories of literature in context ; Deep focus, the complex universe of Joyce's Ulysses? ; Finnegans wake: Joyce's final gift -- Resources. A Joycean chronology ; Works by James Joyce.