Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics by Yvette Christianse (review)
and halts, twists and turns" (238) But A Strong Spirit does not simply reveal Joyce as a subtle, sensitive, nuanced, and perceptive thinker about Ireland who remained both fully engaged and prodigiously well informed long after he left its shores. Crucially, it illustrates through cumulative example and careful detail how Joyce's politics are integral to his aesthetics of ambiguities and oscillations. Joyceans will hope for this study's logical sequel, a guide through the dense political labyrinth of Finnegans Wake.