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"Highly recommended"
--CHOICE

"A book to which anyone interested in Joyce may turn for a lucid and detailed summary of what Joyce has meant to German authors and German culture… Clearly written, easily accessible to non-German speaking readers…The single best source for understanding Joyce's very special role in German Literary culture."
--James Joyce Literary Supplement

“Weninger succeeds admirably… in demonstrating the widespread, intricate, and abiding influence of Joyce on German writers.”
--English Literature in Transition

“Weninger powerfully argues the case for viewing Shakespeare as the most significant English-language author for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in German-speaking lands, and Joyce as filling that role in the twentieth century and down to the present.”
--Literary Research

“Weninger articulates a lucid and sophisticated argument, delivering with rhetorical dexterity, elegance, and wit a persuasive study on the relationship between James Joyce and the German speaking world... no other study has probed Joyce’s German influence in such a comprehensive and systematic way.”
--Arcadia: International Journal of Literary Culture

“A very considerable contribution to our understanding of the international range, impact, and resonance of Joyce’s work.”
--James Joyce Quarterly

“The German Joyce is the sort of multifaceted work that can only be achieved through patient, long-term scholarly investigation. Weninger is to be congratulated on the richness of what he has to show us here about the about the importance of Joyce as a reference-point for the understanding of modern German literary culture.”
--Modern Language Review

Weninger’s exemplary study reveals a further example of the astonishing and admirable openness of German literary culture to influences outside its own narrow ambit.
--Comparative Literature Studies

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