James Joyce is essentially a novelist and has not produced essays specifically on the canon, but he has a strong and even rebellious sense of canon. With his declaration of the "rebel", principles of the "critic" and other comments, he has elaborated his views of the canon, the believes that the canon should be challenging, original, profound, controversial, everlasting and perfect. Well-proved by Joyce's intentional writing and critiques, these views have deeply influenced the creation of modern canonical texts in the 20th century and have bee...