— PUBLISHED —
SEPTEMBER 2024

A close examination of Joyce's joyous, musical prose, shows how language provides us with the means to revitalize daily experience and social interactions.

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Mahaffey discusses banshees in “On Dirty Sheets” and the salmon of knowledge in “On Salmon”; her experience teaching gender and sexuality leads to the shattering conclusions of “On Adultery and Virginity” and “On Fat.” Shakespeare, together with Plato and Aristotle, enrich the treatment of beds in “On Beds.” She also takes on bigger interpretive challenges in the sections “On Love” and “On Religion.”