This ground-breaking exploration of the influential aura of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake initially appeared as a special issue of TriQuarterly (No. 38, Winter 1977). Available now in a permanent format, if offers both students and scholars an excellent introduction to major contemporary figures writing within the Joycean tradition.

The present edition of 'Ulysses': The Mechanics of Meaning has been thoroughly revised for both style and the correction of minor errors. I am grateful to the critics of the first edition for pointing the latter out to me. Though there are no major alterations to the text proper, I have added in appendix, as an aid for the beginning reader, a concise guide to the action of each chapter, of Ulysses.