Hope, Form, and Future in the Work of James Joyce

Hope and future are not the terms with which James Joyce has usually been read, but this book paints a picture of Joyce''s fiction in which hope and future assume the primary colours.
Rando explores how Joyce''s texts, as early as Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, delineate a complex hope that is oriented toward the future with restlessness, dissatisfaction, and invention. He ...