Joyce's Voices

When a correspondent from Missouri wrote to Hugh Kenner and asked that he elaborate on his assertion that "Joyce began *Ulysses* in naturalism and ended it in parody," Kenner answered with this book. *Joyce's Voices* is both a helpful guide through Joyce's complexities, and a brief treatise on the concept of objectivity: the idea that the world can be perceived as a series of reports to our senses. Objectivity, Kenner claims, was a modern invention, and one that the modernists—Joyce foremost among them—found problematic. Accessible and enjoyable, *Joyce's Voices* is what so much criticism is not: an aid to better understanding—and enjoying more fully—the work of one of the world's greatest writers.