Irish Literary Supplement praises "The Joyce of Everyday Life"

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The Joyce of Everyday Life

by Vicki Mahaffey

“In The Joyce of Everyday Life, Mahaffey puts Joyce's entire oeuvre through a prism; she takes the words and images into which Joyce has packed so much meaning and holds that prism up to them, allowing the separate colors and layers of meaning to unfold and become apparent to her readers. In other words, her book is doing through explicating what Joyce does through complicating, untangling these threads of meaning—like Penelope unweaving the shroud—that run through not only Joyce's works but also through the history of human thought.” —Irish Literary Supplement, Fall 2025