Meant to be used while reading Joyce's work, James Joyce A to Z is written primarily for the reader first encountering Joyce, but will be of great use even to scholars.

Gillespie presents a challenge to the traditional view of filmmaking, contesting the existence of an Irish national cinema. Given the social, economic, and cultural complexity of contemporary Irish identity, Gillespie argues, filmmakers can no longer present Irishness as a monolithic entity.

Challenges the traditional view of filmmaking, and contests the existence of an Irish national cinema. Given the social, economic, and cultural complexity of contemporary Irish identity, this book argues that filmmakers cannot present Irishness as a monolithic entity.

An invigorating (and convincing) challenge to the cornerstone assumptions of virtually all contemporary literary criticism . . . this study lays the groundwork for a dynamic new approach to reading literature. Sure to be controversial, its fundamental right-headedness should help to open debate on the nature of literary criticism across numerous disciplines. William W. Demastes, Louisiana State University
Michael Patrick Gillespie employs concepts of post-Einsteinian physics as the metaphoric and dialectic foundation for an alternative method of interpreting literature. His central...

As Gillespie combines national, geographical, and historical contexts with close readings of Joyce s works, the theme of exile takes on unexpected nuances, from spiritual displacements in Joyce s neglected play Exiles to the trials of dealing with a foreign language in Finnegans Wake. Margot Norris, editor of Dubliners
Casts significant new light on Joyce s writings by bringing out memorable ways in which the literal experience of exile enabled Joyce to recast retrospectively the exilic quality of living in Ireland, not simply as alienation but as a mixture of rancor...

Joyce s one play finally gets the critical attention it deserves. Sam Slote, coeditor of Renascent Joyce
Carefully selected discussions illuminate both Joyce s Exiles and Joyce s exile and, as well, the sense of exile throughout Joyce s work. Morris Beja, coeditor of Bloomsday 100: Essays on Ulysses
A major contribution to Joyce studies: a fine introduction, a critical text of Exiles that faithfully restores Joyce s stylistic practices, and a collection of incisive critical essays from the era of Kenner and Tindall to the present. Stephen Watt, author of...