Synopses & Reviews
Review
"We always come to Professor Kenner's books expecting a very high quality of writing, a lively wit, a dexterous play of mind over difficult material. We usually do not pause over them to demand strict accuracy because things simply are moving too quickly for that. It should be said, however, that what Kenner is doing here is cashing in on a very fashionable literary theory of multivoiced prose at the most obvious window, Joyce's Ulysses.The 'double narrative voice' of Joyce's Voices inspires an ambivalence in the reader: the book is meretricious and irresponsible, yet its every word is intelligent and soon to be gospel." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)