This short book offers three accessible essays. Joyce’s Boarding House shows how the use of language in Dubliners might justify his claim for the book as a chapter in the moral history of Ireland. Portrait of the Artist as an Undergraduate considers two very different ways of reading Joyce which together have made Portrait an ironically appropriate ‘set book’. An essay on Ulysses explores the puzzling theological concerns which shaped Joyce’s reaction to his mother’s death and to his own extraordinary literary creations.Praise for Sharratt’s previous work:
.. an absolutely important first-rate book -Terry Eagleton
.. fascinating, entertaining, . . very impressive-David Lodge
.. the most richly-packed book by an English critic in recent years-Nicholas Tredell
.. astonishing, powerful, playful, brilliantly clever and attractive-Fred Inglis