Art of James Joyce: Method and Design in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (Galaxy Books)

The Art of James Joyce is a "biography" of the two controversial major works, Ulusses and Finnegans Wake. Professor Litz has recreated the simultaneous development of Joyce's literry work and literary theory through the use of letters, drafts, note-sheets, and corrections on galley sheets. He reassembles, piece by piece, the "mosaic" form of the writing as it evolved over twenty-six years, and reveals Joyce's growing concept of his art as a total vision constantly elaborated through correction and addition. Since the book follows Joyce's composition from its simpler through its more complex forms, it is a guide to the meaning of difficult passages as well as a guide to method and design. This Galaxy Book edition contains a new preface, corrections, and an addendum, further illuminating "Joyces lifelong search for a form in which expression and substance are uniquely joined."--- from book's back cover