Paperspace: Style As Ideology in Joyce's Ulysses

by Patrick McGee

Censored when it appeared in 1922 and praised and imitated ever since, Ulysses continues to yield riches to a new generation of critics. In Paperspace , Patrick McGee uses the Lacanian model of the unconscious to show how Ulysses baffles and defeats certain axioms of traditional literary criticism, such as the assumption that the meaning of an author's fiction can be reduced to his conscious beliefs and intentions. Described by Shari Benstock as "the first feminist reading of Ulysses ," Paperspace goes further than any other book to date [1988] in the application of postmodern critical theory to a close reading of the novel.

243 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1988