Theoretical Preliminaries * The End of a Meta-Language: From George Eliot toDubliners* The End of the Story:Stephen HeroandA Portrait* A Radical Separation of the Elements: The Distanciation of the Reader inUlysses* City of Words; Streets of Dreams: The Voyage ofUlysses* A Political Reading ofFinnegans Wake* Joyce's Politics * Joyce and Chomsky * The Voice of Esau * Joyce and Benjamin * Realism: Balzac and Bartes Theoretical Preliminaries * The End of a Meta-Language: From George Eliot toDubliners* The End of the Story:Stephen HeroandA Portrait* A Radical Separation of the Elements: The Distanciation of the Reader inUlysses* City of Words; Streets of Dreams: The Voyage ofUlysses* A Political Reading ofFinnegans Wake* Joyce's Politics * Joyce and Chomsky * The Voice of Esau * Joyce and Benjamin * Realism: Balzac and Bartes.