Earl Ingersoll's brilliant work illuminates the ways James Joyce interrogates gender codes, language, and culture. By examining related binary oppositions--male/female, metaphor/metonymy, activity/confinement, activity/passivity--Ingersoll supports his claim that "'femininity' cannot be attributed to just one sex, for it indicates a position of vulnerability evident in men as well as women" (16). Because he tackles difficult issues in a theoretically informed manner, I recommend Ingersoll's book to people who are interested in Joyce studies and to instructors who desire fresh ideas for their classrooms. I also recommend the book to readers curious about gender, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, Modernism, and postmodernism. In short, I give this book the highest rating because it is accessible, fresh, and well written. It adds to Joyce studies in a way that is impressive to scholars, students, and admirers of Joyce.

Eveline is a fabulous short story from master writer James Joyce, which tells a story of love opressed by tradition and family. This is a short story I recomend to all because of the emotion you'll feel through the litterary style of James Joyce. The ending will have you trying to read faster to find out what happens!

Enjoy!Devuan Seraun!

Good essays on "Finnegans Wake," clearly written and useful. Kind of like Tindall's books on Joyce in that its meant to encourage you to plow through "FW" and not be cowed by the prospect. Enjoy.

Thank gosh for lexicons. I'm the proud possessor of the Gaelic, German, Scandinavian, and Classical lexes re "Finnegans Wake." It's a pleasure to spend a rainy afternoon paging through these books which I'd never ever sell to a used-bookstore for food money.

you can't to read all books of Joyce. You can to read only "Giacomo Joyce" and you'll understand of Joyce in whole

Speaking as a student of R.J. Schork's at the University of Massachusetts (2 decades ago), I can affirm that this writer has a long history of making the dust of antiquity come alive in a fascinating way. What he says tends to stay with you for years and years. Definitely get this book!

I had the pleasure of taking two courses on Hemingway from Professor Gajdusek. He brought energy and vitality to the study of Hemingway's works, and it was all we could do to keep him from bouncing off the walls with enthusiasm for his subject. Gadjdusekk brings that same energy to this little monogram. He thoroughly explores Joyce's influence on Hemingway's prose and literary techniques. Hemingway scholars have written in detail about the influences on Hemingway, namely Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and biographers have detailed how those relationships eventually soured as Hemingway in one way or another turned on his former mentors. Gajdusek points out that the relationship with Joyce was an exception, that Hemingway retained a lifelong admiration for Joyce. Gajdusek gives us a close comparison of the two writer's prose styles and traces Joyce's influence on Hemingway's choice of imagery and words, and he argues that it was Joyce, more than any other writer, who taught Hemingway to write as Santiago fished, casting his lines deeper than others. This is a well-crafted monogram, carefully written and argued, and Gajdusek's love for Hemingway's works and the enthusiasm he has for his subject comes through in every sentence.

Kevin Dettmar is a genius! I have never enjoyed a book so thoroughly as The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading Against the Grain. I have already read it six times, I simply can't put it down! I am buying a copy for everyone at work for Christmas, it makes a great gift, so try it. I think that it should be required for every person in this world to read this wonderful, amazing book.

Maria Tymoczko's The Irish Ulysses is an amazing read and a must for anyone interested in Ulysses or James Joyce. It is difficult for me to express, properly, my admiration for this book as it delivers James Joyce to his proper status as hero of the Irish Literary Revival.

I read Maria Tymoczko's The Irish Ulysses shortly after finishing Edna O'Brien's biography of James Joyce. The timing was perfect. In reading Ms. O'Brien's biography, I almost had the sense of reading a scandal sheet and wondered why it is that we so easily confuse a writer's fiction with his or her reality. Why we feel so triumphant in connecting moments in real life with moments in fiction and allowing our imaginations to fill the blanks between those connections.

Ms. Tymoczko resists the temptation to tread the same ground of Joyce's real life and moves, instead, to the Irishness of Ulysses. After reading The Irish Ulysses, I cannot imagine harboring doubt as to its conclusions, nor can I imagine a reader who might fail to see the specifically Irish nature of Ulysses. The argument based on a comparison between various moments in early Irish literature and Ulysses was sound enough, but Ms. Tymoczko does not leave it at that. She thoroughly examines what literature would have been available to Joyce, as well as that which he actually had as part of his library. From newspaper sources to the holdings of the library in Trieste, Ms. Tymoczko leaves little room for doubt that Ulysses is Joyce's creation of an Irish epic to rival that of any nation's literary tradition. I cannot do justice to this book or it's import to the world of Ulysses scholarship.

This little book tells succinctly a lot about Joyce's life and his work. The author rightly points out that the Church furnished Joyce an excellent free education, and that it is in the nature of persons who feel inferior to lash out at that to which they owe gratitude. Much that Joyce did in his private life was stupid, and one cannot admire much of his behavior. The book also examines his work and gives a worthwhile summary of it. The author confirms for me the wisdom of not trying to read Finnegan's Wake--it simply is not worth the effort which would be necessary to make any sense out of it.