<DIV><p>“Molly Bloom—arguably the most controversial and least understood character in <I>Ulysses</I>—has been the victim of critics’ preconceptions and prejudices for decades.  She has never received her due as a woman or a fictional character.  This attractive collection rescues Molly from the critical gaze and resituates her as the subject of a vigorous, sensitive, and varied ‘polylogue.’  In the process, Molly becomes a ‘determined’ woman in both senses of the word, a subject produced by culture and history as well as a woman asserting her individuality in and through those media.  This initiates a discussion that will be joined by many scholars and students of Joyce, veterans as well as newcomers to <I>Ulysses</I>."—Robert Spoo, editor of <I>James Joyce Quarterly </I><BR><br> This is the first full-length critical study of Molly Bloom that attempts to bring her from the margin to the center of <I>Ulysses</I>.  Twelve scholars, working from different points of view, look at 'Penelope' through the lenses of cultural studies: feminism, new historicism, popular culture, postmodernism, and postcolonialism.  As a result, they produce a multiplicity of Molly Blooms and illuminate the many positions she occupies in Joyce's novel.<BR>     The contributors are Kathleen McCormick, Richard Pearce, Cheryl Herr, Kimberly Devlin, Carol Shloss, Susan Bazargan, Brian Shaffer, Joseph Heininger, Jennifer Wicke, Garry Leonard, Margaret Mills Harper, and Ewa Ziarek.</p></DIV>