This exciting new volume presents recent research by internationally recognised Joyce scholars from Europe and North America. Entitled "Joycean Unions: Post-Millennial Essays from East to West," it pays particular attention to contemporary Eastern and Western European perspectives on the immensely influential work of the Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941). The essays collected in this volume uncover various European sources of inspiration for Joyce's early aesthetic theories, for the "Sirens," "Cyclops," "Circe" and "Eumaeus" episodes of his modernist masterwork "Ulysses "(1922) and for his...

Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches.