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===Mythology=== Writing in the ''[[Libertarian Review]]'', Jeff Riggenbach compared ''Dhalgren'' to the work of [[James Joyce]]. A quotation from his review was included on the inside advertisement page of the fifteenth printing of the Bantam edition. As the critic and novelist [[William Gass]] writes of Joyce, "The [[Homer]]ic parallels in ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' are of marginal importance to the reading of the work but are of fundamental importance to the writing of it...Writers have certain ordering compulsions, certain ordering habits, which are part of the book only in the sense that they make the writing possible. This is a widespread phenomenon."<ref name="ConvWithGass">''Conversations with William Gass'', edited by Theadore G. Ammon, pp. 32-33, University of Mississippi Press, Jackson, 1996.</ref> Almost certainly this is also the case with ''Dhalgren'': Writing about the novel both as himself and under his pseudonym K. Leslie Steiner, Delany has made similar statements and suggested that it is easy to make too much of the mythological resonances. As he says, they are merely resonances, and not keys to any particular secrets the novel holds.<ref name="SomeRemarks"/>
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