PART ONE:THE WRITER AND HIS SETTINGChronological table 2
1 BIOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUNDFamily 7
The Irish question 11
Dublin 13
Exile 16
Ulysses 19
Fame 22
Conclusion 27
2 CULTURAL BACKGROUNDAestheticism 28
Realism and Romanticism 33
Symbolism 39
The point of view 45
Style 48
Original sin 52
PART TWO:CRITICAL SURVEY 52
3 A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MANBiography and fiction 59
Structure 63
Symbolism 67
Language 76
Irony 86
Giacomo Joyce/Exiles 91
4 ULYSSESA portrait of the artist as Shakespeare 97
The Homeric outline 102
Coincidental detail 113
Symbolism 122
Style 136
The scandal of Ulysses 148
Feminine judgement 152
5 FINNEGANS WAKERealistic approach 155
The dreamer as Everyman 159
Dream narrative 161
R？les 165
The Cycles 169
Verbiage 176
Significant coincidence 182
Identity 184
6 THE MODERNITY OF JOYCE 187
PART THREE:REFERENCE SECTIONTopographical 195
Short biographies 198
Bibliography 218
INDEX 224
List of illustrations and tablesNora Joyce in 1920 26
Joyce as a child with his mother,father and maternal grandfather 60
Page proof of Ulysses with the author's corrections 96
Joyce family group in Paris in the 1920s 156
The'Tunc'page of the Book of Kells(TCD MS 58 fol 124r) 175
Joyce's death mask 189
Milton Hebald's sculpture over Joyce's grave in Zürich 191
Map of Joyce's Dublin 194
James Joyce and Sylvia Beach,standing in the doorway of Shakespeare＆Co. 199
Table 1:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 75
Table 2:Thematic correspondences in Ulysses 111
Table 3:Minor structural factors in Ulysses 116
Table 4:Detailed Homeric correspondences in Ulysses 120
Table 5:Technics 147