Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, known as Bloomsday . It features characters such as Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly.

Includes stories about Dublin life.

Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night.

Presents annotations to Joyce's classic that can inform any reading of Ulysses . This volume includes annotations that gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, and explain religious nomenclature and practices.

This acclaimed biography has won both the James Tait Black and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prizes, and is considered by many to be the definitive account of Joyce's life and work.

An indispensable guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time, provding a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of Ulysses.

In this volume in the Lives series, Edna O'Brien relates how she shares a love for the music and precision of words with the writer she has seen as guru for all of her life.

It's the summer of 1912. Back in Dublin after nine years abroad, Richard, a successful writer, and Bertha, his wife, have to confront two other people who love them, and ask themselves questions about guilt and responsibility. Will infidelity hold them together?

Since its publication in1939, countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake, have given up after a few pages and dismissed it as a perverse triumph of the unintelligible. The authors break down Joyce's book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary.

This second edition will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom.

Includes: Dance through Religion for the Hell of It ; The Physics of Synchronicity ; James Joyce and Finnegan's Wake ; The Godfather and the Goddess ; The Poet as Early Warning Radar ; Mammary Metaphysics ; and, The Married Catholic Priests Convention.

Explores the genesis of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake . This book offers an archival survey of the manuscripts, and an introduction to genetic criticism.

With 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.

Essays on Arthurian themes, on Beowulf, Chaucer and Shakespeare, and textual studies of Gower and others.

A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

On the surface, James Joyce's work is largely a political. Through most of the twentieth century he was the proud embodiment of the rootless intellectual. This title includes essays that bring Joyce within the ambit of postcolonial studies.

Analyzes the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners . This work examines the text for counterindictions and draws on the social context of the writing in order to offer readings from diverse theoretical perspectives.

A collection of new essays covering Joyce's life, times and cultural contexts.

This edition of Joyce's short story features an authoritative text. together with five essays that approach the work from five contemporary critical perspectives. The editorial apparatus introduces the student to the critical approaches presented.