Preface

The first of two volumes to honor Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli. If there is one point on which Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli’s intellectual focus has never wavered nor waned, that would be James Joyce—the person, his works, the institution. This volume, this “joyceful” for Cicci, attests to that enduring regard. The reach of Rosa Maria’s attention to Joyce, however, has always been broad and welcoming of many different approaches, and if there is something unique about this volume, it is perhaps the range of perspectives that can be found here. Not only are there contributions from well-known Joyceans who have been working in the field of Joyce studies for years, but also contributions from scholars working in fields contiguous to Joyce as well as from those in apparently distant disciplines—such as Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics. It is a gathering that reflects, of course, Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli herself, who has done so much to bring such disparate interests to bear on and attend to Joyce.