Joyce and feminism is not a happy subject. I have not yet acquired a copy of this book, so I cannot provide a review. If anyone would like to send me a review, I will gladly post it. In Joyce's Voices he notes the way in which Joyce allows the proximity of characters to influence with their inflections his narrative voice. Kenner elaborates on the element of parody in Joyce's work and, less happily, insists upon an independent narrator whose purpose is to baffle the reader and to play tricks.
Some decisions seem themselves to be marginal.
He bases this conclusion on the fact that Bloom neither mentions nor thinks of Rudy in the following chapters. This is a heavy burden for negative evidence to support. Any reader could multiply critical strictures but this short book is in the Joycean's path, may not be avoided, is constantly entertaining and in many ways as enlightening as the more considered pronouncements of more conservative critics. Some 800 alphabetical entries encompass specific aspects of the author's work, and provide insight into the culture, history, biography, and criticism of his writings. Delightful little books that incorporate comical illustrations, the series takes on some rather serious authors and topics, from Derrida, Lacan and Hawking, to Genetics, Fascism and Buddhism.