Table of Contents

Scheme 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

Promotional Information

A masterful introduction to James Joyce's Ulysses.

About the Author

Hugh Kenner, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, is the author of numerous books on James Joyce and other subjects. He is the author of The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy.

Reviews

Page 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