Prologue: Undoing the Supreme Fiction -- 1. The Word as Mirror: Dubliners and A Portrait -- 2. The Distorted Mirror: Ulysses -- 3. The Word in Process: Finnegans Wake -- 4. The Mis-Contextualization of Joyce -- 5. Notes Towards the Redefinition of Modernism: Retreat from the Word? -- Apologia pro Scriptura Sua