Joyce

James Joyce, in his experiments with hybrid styles and abrupt transitions, overturned the orderly assumptions of most previous fiction, and opened up possibilities which other writers have been exploring ever since.

But there is more to Joyce than technical daring and innovation, and his fascination with Ireland and Irish history forms the subject matter for much of his work from the early stories of Dubliners to the final baffling extravagances of Finnegans Wake. In this original study John Gross relates this, and Joyce’s concern with the minutiae of life, to the author’s own experiences and personality.