ARTICLES Amanda Sigler, Joyce's Ellmann: The Beginnings of James Joyce Peter Nohrnberg, "Building Up a Nation Once Again": Irish Masculinity, Violence, and the Cultural Politics of Sports in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses Denise Ayo, Scratching at Scabs: The Garryowens of Ireland Lauren Rich, A Table for One: Hunger and Unhomeliness in Joyce's Public Eateries Angela Nemecek, Reading the Disabled Woman: Gerty MacDowell and the Stigmaphilic Space of "Nausicaa" Dieter Fuchs, Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest: Epic Geography and the Austro-Hungarian Subtext of James Joyce's Ulysses Roy Benjamin, Intermisunderstanding Minds: The First Gospel in Finnegans Wake NOTES Faith Steinberg, Joyce Illustrates Finnegans Wake (verbally) and HCE Goes Tomb-Hopping Joseph Kestner, James Joyce's "Araby" on Film Brandon Lansom, Orpheus Descending: Images of Psychic Descent in "Hades" and "Circe" Thomas Rendall, Joyce's "The Dead" and the Mid-life Crisis

In 1929, ten years before James Joyce completed "Finnegans Wake", Sylvia Beach published a strange book with a stranger title: "Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress". Worried by the confusion and attacks that constituted the general reception of his "Work in Progress" (the working title for "Finnegans Wake"), Joyce orchestrated this collection of twelve essays and two 'letters of protest' from such writers as Samuel Beckett, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Robert McAlmon, and William Carlos Williams. "Our Exagmination" represents an altogether unusual hybrid of criticism and advertisement, and since its first appearance has remained a touchstone as well as a point of contention for Joyce scholars. Eighty years later, Joyce's "Disciples Disciplined" reads the "Exagmination" as an integral part of the larger composition history and interpretive context of "Finnegans Wake" itself. This new collection of essays by fourteen outstanding Joycean scholars offers one essay in response to each of the original "Exagmination" contributions. From philosophically informed exegeses and new conceptions of international modernism to considerations of dance, film, and the flourishing field of genetic studies, these essays together exemplify an interdisciplinary criticism that is also a lively and ongoing conversation with that criticism's history.

An indispensable resource for scholars and students of James Joyce, Joyce Studies Annual gathers essays by foremost scholars and emerging voices in the field.