Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book celebrates the transformative effects of the city of Trieste on Joyce's writing.
Sebastian D. G. Knowles is professor emeritus of English at Ohio State University. Geert Lernout is professor emeritus at the University of Antwerp. He is general editor of European Joyce Studies and Genetic Joyce Studies. John McCourt is codirector of the University of Trieste’s Trieste Joyce School. He is the author of The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste, 1904–1920.