In James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of egoism. This concept, Jean-Michel Rabat? argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, hospitality, a term Rabat? understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to the other. Rabat? explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all scholars of modernism...