Introduction / Daniel Ferrer, Sam Slote, and André Topia -- 1. "Another victory like that and we are done for": Return and repression of a Greek spirit in modernism / Philippe Birgy -- 2. Textual atomism in Finnegans Wake / Jonathan Pollock -- 3. James Joyce and Giordano Bruno: an "immarginable" and interdisciplinary dialogue / Federico Sabatini -- 4. The dream and the wake: an alchemy of words and scenes in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and Finnegans Wake / Tracey Eve Winton -- 5. "As great Shapesphere puns it": the name game in Shakespeare and Joyce / François Laroque -- 6. "Marked you that?": Stephen Dedalus, Pierrot / Maria-Daniella Dick -- 7. The ass dreams of Shaun's bottomless heart: Shakespeare and the dream-work in Finnegans Wake 403-407 / Jim LeBlanc -- 8. "The imprevidibility of the future": on Joycean prophecy / Paul K. Saint-Amour -- 9. Scribbling into eternity: Paris, Proust, "Proteus" / Christine Froula -- 10. Joyce's hand in the first French translation of Ulysses / Liliane Rodriguez -- 11. Joyce's dictionnaire des idiotismes reus: comparing the 1929 and 2004 translations of "Eumaeus" / Robert Byr.
Summary:
An edited volume examining the many ways in which Joyce exhibits Renaissance tendencies, comparing him with major Renaissance figures, such as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Bruno.
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