Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- References and abbreviations -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION On being a Joycean -- MAINLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL -- MAINLY THEORETICAL -- CHAPTER 1 Deconstructive criticism of Joyce -- CHAPTER 2 Popular Joyce? -- CHAPTER 3 Touching 'Clay': reference and reality in Dubliners -- A SOFT WET SUBSTANCE -- A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE -- ON REFERRING -- MARIA VICTRIX -- CHAPTER 4 Joyce and the ideology of character -- CHAPTER 5 'Suck was a queer word': language, sex, and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- SEX AND THE SCHOOLBOY -- THE REMAINDER OF LANGUAGE AND THE POWER OF LITERATURE -- THE ARTIST AS A YOUNGISH MAN -- CHAPTER 6 Joyce, Jameson, and the text of history -- CHAPTER 7 Wakean history: not yet -- CHAPTER 8 Molly's flow: the writing of 'Penelope' and the question of women's language -- STOPPING THE FLOW -- A FEMALE LANGUAGE? -- OVERFLOW -- CHAPTER 9 The postmodernity of Joyce: chance, coincidence, and the reader -- CHAPTER 10 Countlessness of livestories: narrativity in Finnegans Wake -- CHAPTER 11 Finnegans awake, or the dream of interpretation -- FIRST PROPOSITION -- SECOND PROPOSITION -- THIRD PROPOSITION -- CHAPTER 12 The Wake's confounded language -- CHAPTER 13 Envoi: judging Joyce -- A COMMITMENT TO JOYCE -- AN INDUSTRY WITHOUT LIMITS -- A JOYCE COME TO JUDGEMENT -- AN EXCESS OF TECHNIQUE -- A FUTURE FOR ULYSSES? -- Works cited -- Index.