Contents -- Introduction -- THE TRADITION -- 1. Trout in Milk and Imaginary Toads in Real Gardens -- 2. Tradition and the Individual Talent in "Prufrock" -- 3. An Old-Irish Ghost in Ulysses -- 4. Dostoevsky, Joyce, and God -- Point of Jew in Ulysses -- Dostoevskian Joyce -- CONTEMPORARIES -- 5. "Our Modern Experiment" -- Contexts -- Make It New! -- What Was Modernism? -- Pound's Decade -- Ulysses, The Waste Land and Company -- 6. Ulysses and The Waste Land -- The Influence of Mr. Joyce's Book -- The Play of Allusion -- Expressions of an Age -- Different Voices -- 7. Joyce and Mann, Citizen Artists -- THE INHERITANCE -- 8. To Criticize the Critics -- 9. The Function of "Prufrock" for Criticism -- Is There A Work in This Text? -- A Well Wrought Urn? -- Ghostlier Demarcations -- Conclusion -- 10. The Adventures of Ulysses in Our World -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.