The Reader's Joyce

Rethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James Joyce Offers the first extended exploration of authority in the reception of a canonical modernist authorRe-centres Homer in Ulysses and its receptionPresents an innovative approach to issues of reading by marrying new, close textual analysis of sections of Ulysses with critical and literary reception studiesSuggests a new understanding of literary and critical acts of reading and au