Amazon.com description: Product Description: Did James Joyce, that icon of modernity, spearhead the dismantling of the Cartesian subject? Or was he a supreme example of a modern man forever divided and never fully known to himself? This volume reads the dialogue of contradictory cultural voices in Joyce's works--revolutionary and reactionary, critical and subject to critique, marginal and central. It includes ten essays--all but two of them published here for the first time--that identify repressed elements in Joyce's writings and examine how psychic and cultural repressions persistently surface in his texts.