About the author: Morton P. Levitt is the author of several books and many articles on the modern novel, including Bloomsday: An Interpretation of James Joyce’s Ulysses; The Cretan Glance: The World and Art of Nikos Kazantzakis, Modernist Survivors: The Contemporary Novel in England, the US, France, and Latin America; and James Joyce and Modernism (Mellen, 2000) He is Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. He is currently Professor of English at Temple University.
2000 0-7734-7869-8 In these essays, which cover a period of more than thirty years, a noted Joyce critic traces some of the major developments in the criticism of the 20th century’s most influential writer, revealing the critical tradition through which Joyce came to be considered a cultural icon.