Ever since early commentators’ accounts of James Joyce’s prodigious mnemonic faculties, considerable critical attention has been devoted to the theme of memory in relation to the author’s compositional process, as well as its enactment in his major works. The essays collected in this book focus on different aspects of Joyce’s treatment of memory in his masterpiece Ulysses. They attempt to reveal the manner in which concepts of memory, time, personal identity and text production entwine in the very fabric of the novel, and explore the interplay between these issues with particular emphasis on memory as textual construct. Memory, as several scholars have pointed out, is both a major theme and the primary narrative method in Ulysses, the structural and linguistic basis of Joyce’s writing and of his lived experience. By analysing the way in which the characters’ pasts are constructed and presented in the book, as well as the devices by which the text assumes the function of a memorial/archive/palimpsest, this work proposes to show that, through the authorial process of writing and the reader’s act of interpreting, the novel actually becomes a site of memory.