Joyce's Choices

<p class=ql-align-justify><span>This major new study of the textual parallels that permeate James Joyce's three most widely read works--'Dubliners' 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' and 'Ulysses'--documents and discusses some eight hundred instances just over seven hundred of them in 'Ulysses' alone of previously unrecognized unidentified or misidentified echoes most of them verbatim of antecedent texts ranging from major and minor works of English Irish Italian French and other literatures to the poems plays popular songs hymns comic operas triple-deckers dime novels penny dreadfuls and print advertisements of his own day.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span>By meticulously identifying hundreds of previously unknown instances of such intertextual echoes such conscious or unconscious literary borrowings Winnick's study complements prior works on Joyce's allusive practices by among others Weldon Thornton Don Gifford and most recently and comprehensively Sam Slote Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner shedding important new light on Joyce's reading thematic intentions and creative technique.</span></p><p></p>