Ebook: Joyce effects on language, theory, and history

On being a Joycean -- Deconstructive criticism of Joyce -- Popular Joyce? -- Touching 'Clay': reference and reality in Dubliners -- Joyce and the ideology of character -- 'Suck was a queer word': language, sex, and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- Joyce, Jameson, and the text of history -- Wakean history: not yet -- Molly's flow: the writing of 'Penelope' and the question of women's language -- The postmodernity of Joyce: chance, coincidence, and the reader -- Countlessness of livestories: narrativity in Finnegans Wake -- Finnegans awake, or the dream of interpretation -- The Wake's confounded language -- Envoi: judging Joyce.;Derek Attridge's collected essays on James Joyce represent fifteen years of close engagement with the writer and reflects the changing course of Joyce criticism during this period. Attridge examines the way Joyce's writing transforms our understanding of language, literature and history and offers in-depth analysis of Joyce's four major books.