1. Introduction: on being a Joycean
2. Deconstructive criticism of Joyce
3. Popular Joyce?
4. Touching 'Clay': Reference and reality in Dubliners
5. Joyce and the ideology of character
6. 'Suck was a queer word': Language, sex, and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
7. Joyce, Jameson, and the text of history
8. Wakean history: not yet
9. Molly's flow: the writing of 'Penelope' and the question of women's language
10. The postmodernity of Joyce: chance, coincidence, and the reader
11. Countlessness of live-stories: narrativity in Finnegan's Wake
12. Finnegans awake, or the dream of interpretation
13. The Wake's confounded language
14. Envoi
Judging Joyce.
