James Joyce's novels constitute a very complicated artistic world. This artistic complexity is required by the complexity of his themes. That is, with each novel, he touches upon a different aspect in his narrating of the nation, including reflection on its history, diagnosis of its malady and pursuit of self transcendence. Thus the four of his major novels can be said to be one project in which he is trying to achieve all of the following purposes, namely, to write the nation's epic and his ow...
