Michael Seidel 
James Joyce [PDF ebook] 
A Short Introduction

1. Introducing Joyce.
2. Master Plots.
3. Dubliners.
4. Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man.
5. Exiles.
6. Levels of Narration.
7. Homer in Ulysses.
8. Three Dubliners.
9. Reflexive Fiction.
10. Strategic Planning.
Notes.
Index.

Michael Seidel is Jesse and George Siegel Professor of
Humanities at Columbia University. He has written widely on
narrative form and his previous publications include Epic
Geography: James Joyce’s Ulysses (1976), Exile and the
Narrative Imagination (1986), and Robinson Crusoe: Island
Myths and the Novel (1991). He is associate editor of the
Columbia History of British Fiction and co-editor of the
first two volumes of The Complete Works of Daniel Defoe
(2000, 2001). He also serves on the editorial board of The James
Joyce Studies Annual.