This reader-friendly introduction makes Joyce asscessible by combining the excitement of reading his words with the excitement of interpreting them.
About the Author
Michael Seidel is Jesse and George Siegel Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He has written widely on narrative form and his previous publications include Epic Geography: James Joyce's Ulysses (1976), Exile and the Narrative Imagination (1986), and Robinson Crusoe: Island Myths and the Novel (1991). He is associate editor of the Columbia History of British Fiction and co-editor of the first two volumes of The Complete Works of Daniel Defoe (2000, 2001). He also serves on the editorial board of The James Joyce Studies Annual.
Features
Makes Joyce accessible to those coming to his works for the first time.
Shows that students need to pay close attention to Joyce's words, phrases and sentences in order to read his works with insight and pleasure.
Demystifies Joyce's style and demonstrates that the books themselves hold all the clues to understanding Joyce's narrative enterprise.
The introduction points out the amusing ways in which Joyce represents the many voices of twentieth-century narrative.
