John Gordon, professor of English at Connecticut College, has contributed to such journals as the James Joyce Quarterly and Modern Fiction Studies. He is the author of James Joyce's Metamorphoses and Finnegans Wake; A Plot Summary.
The author of two well-received books on Joyce--James Joyce's Metamorphoses and Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary--Gordon continues his engaging and useful explication of Joyce's most difficult writing. The author's abiding premise is that Joyce, like Hemingway, was a realist who wished to 'reduce the veil between literature and life.' Unlike many contemporary critics, however, Gordon argues that Joyce's reality differs from the present reality, drawing on ideas current in his time. . . . Gordon sees Joyce's linguistic pyrotechnics as rooted in the nativist philology of the late 19th century. The turn-of-the-century fascination with the occult as a science figures prominently in Joyce's realism, giving an 'Orphic' dimension to his thought and writing. Gordon adeptly traces and provocatively argues these points.-- "Choice"
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