The Varieties of Joycean Experience

The Varieties of Joycean Experience is a collection of ten essays that display the wide range and diversity of perspectives and critical approaches that can be drawn upon to enrich our readings of James Joyces works. With special attention to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, these essays explore such problems as the difficulties these books pose to categories and summaries and our understanding of Joyces composition methods. The book explores Joyces ambiguities around death, scatology, and the weather to propose new understandings of these phenomena as key ways into Joyces works. The book concludes with an examination of the tricky problem: what makes an interpretation untenable, and why do Joyces works inspire far-fetched and even crackpot readings?