Joyce's Voices (American Literature Series) - Softcover

Kenner, Professor Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564784282 ISBN 13: 9781564784285

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2007

Synopsis

"An original and entertaining study of, chiefly, Ulysses . . . This is a most stimulating book." Anthony Burgess

About this title

About the Author:

Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) was one of America's great literary critics. He wrote on a range of subjects that includes Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, and geodesic domes.

Review:

“Kenner's work is an achievement of a polymath: it ranges from Jonathan Swift to Flaubert, and from Dickens to T. S. Eliot, circling around its two main concerns: Joyce's Ulysses and the death of objectivity as a privileged style in modern literature.” (Choice)

“As always, Kenner is original, provocative, stimulating, occasionally perverse, and immensely readable . . . The book offers important new insights into Joyce's art.” (Library Journal)

“The volume is easy to handle and a delight to read. And Kenner's leaping wit, his metaphors, his transitions from insight to insight, his lively attention to Joyce's invention—these qualities make it difficult, if you pick it up one evening, not to finish it before turning off the light.” (National Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1564784282
• ISBN 13: 9781564784285
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120