Rather than simply proposing or applying new methodologies, it historicises and reconceives the critical assumptions that have shaped scholarly approaches to these works for over half a century, showing that non-fiction as a categorical distinction, no matter how sensible it appears, crumbles under closer inspection.

1. Introduction; Katherine Ebury and James Fraser.- 2. Please, Mr. Postman: Joyce’s Expanding Epistolary Novel; Michael Groden.- 3. “He chronicled with patience”: Early Joycean Progressions between Non-Fictionality and Fiction; Hans Walter Gabler.- 4. Tracing the Curve of an Emotion: Joyce’s Early “Portrait” Essay; Terence Killeen.- 5. Is It Joyce We Are Reading?: Nonfiction, Authorship and Digital Humanities; Kevin Barry with Kevin Feeney, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Bojan Božić.- 6. James Joyce as Cultural Critic; Emer Nolan.- 7. Into the West: Joyce on Aran; John McCourt.- 8. Writing Journalism, Writing Betrayal: The Formation of a Journalistic Voice; James Fraser.- 9. Becoming-animal in the Epiphanies: Joyce Between Fiction and Non-Fiction; Katherine Ebury.- 10. For Frankness’ Sake’: Confessional Structures in Giacomo Joyce; JT Welsch.

This book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyce’s non-fictional writings. Rather than simply proposing or applying new methodologies, it historicises and reconceives the critical assumptions that have shaped scholarly approaches to these works for over half a decade, showing that non-fiction as a categorical distinction, no matter how sensible it appears, crumbles under closer inspection. Bringing into conversation a group of key Joyce scholars, this volume acts not only as a vital reimagining of our critical relationship to Joyce’s non-fiction, but as a contribution to similar debates being carried out across the broad range of modernist studies.

“Although regularly cited, Joyce’s non-fictional writings have usually been seen as occasional and secondary.  This volume treats them comprehensively and synoptically for the first time and illuminatingly uncovers the variegated impulses motivating this work. Triumphantly, these essays prove the centrality of Joyce’s non-fiction to his artistic enterprise and firmly resituate it as part of, not ancillary to, his radical, modernist experimentation.” (Professor Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin, Ireland)

“This book will change the way we read Joyce’s career as a writer of experimental prose. Ebury and Fraser have compiled an impressive line-up of contributions that unsettle critical notions tenaciously insisting on distinguishing between Joyce’s non-fiction and his fictional writing. Because it probes how scholars establish cultural hierarchies in the assessment of modernist writing this informative, wide-ranging and timely collection should be of interest to anyone workingon Joyce today.” (Professor Vike Martina Plock, University of Exeter, UK)

“With the publication of this book, it becomes impossible to lump Joyce’s writing into two discrete categories, fiction and non-fiction. The penetrating and original essays collected here by Fraser and Ebury complicate that relationship while demonstrating the value of paying serious attention to the various kinds of writing traditionally classified as non-fiction. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting a full picture of Joyce’s achievement.” (Professor Derek Attridge, University of York, UK)

Represents the first ever book-length study of Joyce’s non-fiction Provides a new perspective on the novels by taking other writings into consideration Brings together key Joyce scholars/experts on Joyce’s criticism, politics and non-fiction writings

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