James Joyce

This book provides an introduction to Ulysses as well as a compelling critical narrative of its own. Through a detailed, sequenced reading of the text, it offers a historically informed understanding of Joyce, one that stresses his sensitivity to issues of personality and gender and his awareness of the political implications of his own verbal art. It also presents Ulysses as a milestone and turning point in the history of the novel, relating Joyce to the larger enterprise of modernism and offering a provocative account of the Joycean legacy in modern fiction.