Joyce and Company is a comparative study which encourages a way of thinkingabout Joyce not as an isolated figure but as someone who is best understood inthe com... » 

Joyce and Company is a comparative study which encourages a way of thinkingabout Joyce not as an isolated figure but as someone who is best understood inthe company of others whether from the past the present or indeed theimagined future. Throughout Pierce places Joyce and his time in dialogue withother figures or different historical periods or languages other than English.In this way Joyce is seen anew in relation to other writers and contexts. Thebook is organised in four parts Joyce and History Joyce and Language Joyceand the City and Joyce and the Contemporary World. Pierce emphasises Joycesposition as both an Irish and a European writer and shows Joyces continuingrelevance to the twentyfirst century not least in his commitment to languageculture and a discourse on freedom. «