Dublin's Joyce [Paperback]

Hugh Kenner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 1987

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Mr. Kenner, who specializes in the symbolic aspect of Joyce's work, writes brilliantly, opening many avenues of thought.

(The Christian Scientist Monitor )

Hugh Kenner's brilliant study goes the narrower and deeper way of the specialists' specialist.

(The New York Times Book Review )

About the Author

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

Product Details

• Paperback: 372 pages
• Publisher: Columbia University Press; Columbia University Press morningside ed edition (October 15, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0231066333
• ISBN-13: 978-0231066334
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,689,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #33 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > People, A-Z > ( J ) > Joyce, James

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