“A Companion to James Joyce” offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth-and twenty-first-century literatures. • Brings together 25 newly commissioned essays by some of the top scholars in the field • Explores Joyce's distinctive cultural place in Irish, British and European modernism and the growing impact of his work elsewhere in the world • A comprehensive and timely Companion to current debates and possible areas of future development in Joyce studies • Offers new critical readings of several of Joyce's works, including Dubliners, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, and “Ulysses”.