Hugh Kenner, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, is the author of numerous books on James Joyce and other subjects. He is the author of The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy.

Page for page, the most illuminating book yet written about Joyce's novel... No one in nearly sixty years of intense critical activity has seen more than Kenner, or has described what he has seen with greater love and enthusiasm. -- A. Walton Litz Times Literary Supplement

• Scheme of ReferencesChapter 1. PreliminaryChapter 2. 'O, an Impossble Person!'Chapter 3. Uses of HomerChapter 4. Immediate experienceChapter 5. The Hidden HeroChapter 6. Stephen's DayChapter 7. The ArrangerChapter 8. The Aesthetic of DelayChapter 9. OceansongChapter 10. Maelstrom, RefluxChapter 11. MetempsychosesChapter 12. Death and ResurrectionChapter 13. Lists, MythsChapter 14. The Gift of a BookAppendices1. The Date of Stephen's Fight2. Bloom's Chest3. The Circle and the Three NinesCritical SequelsBibliographyIndex

Hugh Kenner, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, is the author of numerous books on James Joyce and other subjects. He is the author of The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy.

Page for page, the most illuminating book yet written about Joyce's novel... No one in nearly sixty years of intense critical activity has seen more than Kenner, or has described what he has seen with greater love and enthusiasm. -- A. Walton Litz Times Literary Supplement

• Scheme of ReferencesChapter 1. PreliminaryChapter 2. 'O, an Impossble Person!'Chapter 3. Uses of HomerChapter 4. Immediate experienceChapter 5. The Hidden HeroChapter 6. Stephen's DayChapter 7. The ArrangerChapter 8. The Aesthetic of DelayChapter 9. OceansongChapter 10. Maelstrom, RefluxChapter 11. MetempsychosesChapter 12. Death and ResurrectionChapter 13. Lists, MythsChapter 14. The Gift of a BookAppendices1. The Date of Stephen's Fight2. Bloom's Chest3. The Circle and the Three NinesCritical SequelsBibliographyIndex