Perhaps no literary work of the twentieth century has caused more controversy than James Joyce's Ulysses. The book America wanted to burn has instead earned a place as one of the most complex and most studied volumes of fiction. In this collection of essays each of the eighteen contributors offers new commentary on one of the episodes in Ulysses. Throughout Ulysses-En-Gendered Perspectives the common critical concern is with varying articulations of "femininities" and "masculinities" in Joyce's modernist epic. Each contributor attends to the extensive and various markings of gender in Ulysses...

A brilliantly collaged snapshot of the variety and wealth of literary criticism, and Joyce studies, today. Tony Thwaites, author of Joycean Temporalities
Celebrates the multiplicity and sheer rampant excess of Joyce s prodigally polysemous text with seventeen different scholars employing a likewise prodigal range of critical methodologies. Patrick O Neill, author of Impossible Joyce: Finnegans Wakes
Each of the scholars involved is at the top of his and her game. Their commitment and excitement about the task at hand is evident on virtually every page. This book makes...