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The Dublin Helix: The Life of Language in Joyce's Ulysses
Sebastian D. G. Knowles
Pubdate: 4/22/2001

The Dublin Helix is a puzzle book, taking as its method James Joyce's own playful manipulations of language and matching them with entertaining word searches, acrostics, and other enigmas. Knowles finds ways into Ulysses that have never before 		Cloth: $59.95
Joyce Beyond Marx: History and Desire in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Patrick McGee
Pubdate: 3/28/2001

Joyce Beyond Marx brings together 11 essays and a new introduction by internationally respected Joyce scholar Patrick McGee. While a number of the pieces have been previously published, McGee has extensively revised them, integrated them with substantial 		Cloth: $55.00
Bernard Shaw and the French
Michel W. Pharand
Pubdate: 2/15/2001

Michel Pharand analyzes the curiously ambiguous relationship between George Bernard Shaw and all things French. While Shaw often proclaimed his abiding distaste and disdain for the French culture, Pharand unveils convincing evidence of the playwright's 		Cloth: $59.95
D. H. Lawrence, Desire, and Narrative
Earl G. Ingersoll
Pubdate: 2/4/2001

This exploration of D. H. Lawrence's longer fiction marks a long overdue effort to bring the writing of a major 20th-century British author into a postmodern context. Ingersoll turns to theorists who have been influenced by psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan-- 		Cloth: $59.95
Voices and Values in Joyce's Ulysses
Weldon Thornton
Pubdate: 12/20/2000

This book provides a clear, well-substantiated answer to a question that has vexed critics for decades: Why does Joyce employ a different style for each of the last ten episodes of "Ulysses"? Rejecting the commonly held position that this variety of 		Cloth: $59.95
Joyce's Comic Portrait
Roy Gottfried
Pubdate: 8/27/2000

In the first book-length study of the comedic in "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," Roy Gottfried argues that far from being a solemn work, Joyce's early masterpiece is covertly but determinedly comic. Specifically, he looks at the Portrait's 		Cloth: $59.95
Joyce and Hagiography: Saints Above!
R. J. Schork
Pubdate: 8/14/2000

R.J. Schork examines the function of the countless saints--genuine and bogus, famous and obscure, ancient and modern--who hover over James Joyce's fiction. Schork identifies these saints, traces their inspiration in Joyce's Irish Catholic upbringing, 		Cloth: $59.95
Shaw's Theater
Bernard F. Dukore
Pubdate: 4/30/2000

Examines Shaw's work in the theater and the use of theater in his work. Part I, "Bernard Shaw, Director" was originally published in 1971 and remains the most authoritative work on this aspect of Shaw. Part II: "The Director as Interpreter: 		Cloth: $59.95
Chaos Theory and James Joyce's Everyman
Peter Francis Mackey
Pubdate: 10/16/1999

Applies chaos theory to James Joyce's Ulysses, & specifically to the course of Leopold Bloom's day, ultimately showing how and why chaos theory offers the best model yet for understanding daily human life and a fresh, humanistic understanding of Joyce. 		Cloth: $59.95
Joyce through the Ages: A Nonlinear View
Edited by Michael Patrick Gillespie
Pubdate: 10/1/1999

Edited collection of essays focusing on social, cultural, and historical aspects of age and aging in Joyce's work. Examines nontraditional connections suggested by chaos theory. 		Cloth: $59.95
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