Description
Book SynopsisWith characteristic flair, Kenner explores the ways Joyce teaches us to read his novel as Joyce taught himself to write it: moving from the simple to the complex, from the familiar to the strange and new, from the norms of the nineteenth-century novel to the open forms of modernism.
Trade ReviewPage for page, the most illuminating book yet written about Joyce's novel... No one in nearly sixty years of intense critical activity has seen more than Kenner, or has described what he has seen with greater love and enthusiasm. -- A. Walton Litz Times Literary Supplement
Table of ContentsScheme of References
Chapter 1. Preliminary
Chapter 2. 'O, an Impossble Person!'
Chapter 3. Uses of Homer
Chapter 4. Immediate experience
Chapter 5. The Hidden Hero
Chapter 6. Stephen's Day
Chapter 7. The Arranger
Chapter 8. The Aesthetic of Delay
Chapter 9. Oceansong
Chapter 10. Maelstrom, Reflux
Chapter 11. Metempsychoses
Chapter 12. Death and Resurrection
Chapter 13. Lists, Myths
Chapter 14. The Gift of a Book
Appendices
1. The Date of Stephen's Fight
2. Bloom's Chest
3. The Circle and the Three Nines
Critical Sequels
Bibliography
Index
