Joyce's Book of MemoryFor James Joyce, perhaps the most crucial of all human faculties was memory. It represented both the central thread of identity and a looking glass into the past. It served as an avenue into other minds, an essential part of the process of literary composition and narration, and the connective tissue of cultural tradition. In Joyces Book of Memory John S. Rickard demonstrates how Joyces body of workUlysses in particularoperates as a mnemotechnic, a