conduct of life in literature

"Focusing on some of the best known characters in all of literature--chosen to trace the arc from childhood to old age--a . . . psychoanalyst and professor of literature shows how our inner lives become at once stranger and more familiar when seen through the prism of fiction"--Provided by publisher.

Argues that James Joyce's classic "Ulysses" is not meant only for a scholarly few, but a work based on the lives of ordinary people that offers a humane vision of a more tolerant world.