Dublin's Joyce - by Hugh Kenner (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

One of the most important books ever written on Uylsses, Dublin's Joyce established Hugh Kenner as a significant modernist critic. This pathbreaking analysis presents Uylsses as a "bit of anti-matter that Joyce sent out to eat the world." The author assumes that Joyce wasn't a man with a box of mysteries, but a writer with a subject: his native European metropolis of Dublin. Dublin's Joyce provides the reader with a perspective of Joyce as a superemely important literary figure without considering him to be the revealer of a secret doctrine.

From the Back Cover

Dublin's Joyce is the first book to make use if a large collection of Joyce's letters, manuscripts, and biographical data, while it presents the reader with a perspective of Joyce as a supremely important literary figure, not the revealer of a secret doctrine.

Review Quotes

Hugh Kenner's brilliant study goes the narrower and deeper way of the specialists' specialist.-- "The New York Times Book Review"

Mr. Kenner, who specializes in the symbolic aspect of Joyce's work, writes brilliantly, opening many avenues of thought.-- "The Christian Scientist Monitor"

About the Author

Hugh Kenner is Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University.