This volume proposes to honor the trenchant, influential scholarship of Professor Margot Norris in essays that amplify her illumination of Joyce's oeuvre. The common denominator running through her work is her openness to Joyce's various modes of innovation; she pioneered alternative ways of regarding his fiction, the readers it addresses, the narrative and generic forms it alters, the world to which it refers, and the nature of the socio-historical status quo it exposes. These categories anchor and organize the collection: Joyce's textual plurivalence, formal innovations, possible worlds, emergent histories (including those of women), and variegated readerships.

Joseph Valente is UB Distinguished Professor, the University at Buffalo. He is currently Vice-President of the Northeast Modern Language Association.

Vicki Mahaffey is the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).

1. Introductory Essay-Joseph Valente and Vicki Mahaffey: "Defining a Generation in Joyce"; 2. Personal testimonies-Karen Lawrence: "California Joyce"; 3. Suspicious Reading-Joseph Valente: "Wondering Where on Earth All the Children Came From?", Beryl Schlossman: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Joyce's "The Dead": Adaptation and Betrayal, Kezia Whiting: "Suspicious Repetitions: The Free Indirect Palaver of Dubliners"; 4. Virgin and Veteran Readings-Michael Groden: " 'It's Only the First Time After That It's Just Ordinary': Rereading Ulysses", Austin Briggs: "'Art Thou Real, My Ideal': Disability and the Aesthetics of Asymmetry in "Nausicaa", Margot Backus: The Language of Flowers: Something Poetical Like Violets"; 5. Narratological Readings-Valerie Benejam" "Foreign Words are the Jews of the Language": Joyce's Philological Anatomy of Anti-Semitism in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake", Derek Attridge: "Autonomous Form in Joyce and After", Michael Gillespie: "Joyce's Humane Comedy"; 6. The Old World-Ellen Carol Jones: "Ephemeral Spectacle: Art and Politics in "Circe", Anne Fogarty: "'But who was Gerty?': "Nausicaa" and Nineteenth Century Fiction", Mark Osteen: " 'Salient Points Caused by Foot Pressure': The Language of Feet in Ulysses"; 7. New (Possible) Worlds-Marilyn Reizbaum: "Always a Good Turn: Teaching Margot Norris", Gregory Castle: "Brick by Brick: Joyce's "Circe" and the World of the Reader", Paul Saint-Amour: "Finnegans Wake as World-Refusal", Moshe Gold "Strick(en) Joyce: Margot Norris, Ulysses and Film"; 8, The Tonic Note-Vicki Mahaffey "Joycean Possibilities of Gender Equality".