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by Weldon Thornton

This book provides a clear, well-substantiated answer to a question that has vexed critics for 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 styles is a reflection of Joyce's linguistic relativism, Weldon Thornton argues that Joyce's intention is to reveal and to highlight the limitations and distortions that these extravagantly disparate styles produce. "Few scholars can approach Ulysses armed with the breadth of knowledge and command of scholarship evident in Thornton's rich and humane reading of the novel. Voices and Values in Joyce's Ulysses is the most important study in many years of the relationship between Joyce's stylistic experiments and the values on which they are based."-Patrick A. McCarthy, University of Miami

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000