The assumptions that literary criticism and philosophy are closely linked\u0026#8212;and that both disciplines can learn much from each other\u0026#8212;lead David White to examine key passages in James Joyce\u0026#39;s novels both as a philosopher and as literary critic. In so doing, he develops a thesis that Joyce\u0026#39;s attempt to capture the mysterious process whereby perception and consciousness are translated into language entails a fundamental challenge to everyday notions of reality. Joyce\u0026#39;s stylistic brilliance and virtuosity, his destruction of normal syntax and meaning, \u0026quot;shock one into a new reality.\u0026quot; In the book\u0026#39;s final section, White examines the subtle relation between literary language and human consciousness and traces parallels between Joyce\u0026#39;s stylistic experimentation and Wittgenstein\u0026#39;s and Husserl\u0026#39;s ideas about language.
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