This book contains eighteen original essays by leading Joyce scholars on the eighteen separate chapters of Ulysses. It attempts to explore the richness of Joyce's extraordinary novel more fully than could be done by any single scholar. Joyce's habit of using, when writing each chapter in Ulysses, a particular style, tone, point of view, and narrative structure gives each contributor a special set of problems with which to engage, problems which coincide in every case with certain of his special interests. The essays in this volume complement and illuminate one another to provide the most comprehensive account yet published of Joyce's many-sided masterpiece.
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David Hayman is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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I am no Joycean scholar but as "Ulysses" is consistently rated as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century I was determined to get through it and understand it as best I could. This collection of essays I found very helpful and while the authors have way too much time on their hands to be considering Joyce's novel to the depth they do (one of them actually retraced the steps of all the characters in the Wandering Rocks episode to determine whether Joyce's narrative was realistic), I did not find it a difficult read and it was interesting to have a variety of views from different critics in the one volume. I doubt whether I would have made it through "Ulysses" without this by my side, and also "Ulysses Annotated". I think I will leave "Finnegan's Wake" for the next metempsychosis.
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These essays are mainly for the very well educated in literature who are unduly interested in Ulysses, and/or doing scholarly research on James Joyce. However, even attempting to read these essays does help one to get more meaning out of Joyce's great novel. These essays are hardly any easier to read than the novel itself, but if you have the intelligence and education to understand and appreciate them, it's certainly worth the effort. The essays cover all the chapters of the novel individually--not the novel as a whole--so if there is one particular chapter you are interested in learning more about, or having trouble understanding, you can find an essay that concentrates only on that particular chapter.
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Even if we approach Ulysses armed with only A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the 'Telemachus' portal seems to be deceptively simple. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Even if we approach Ulysses armed with only A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the 'Telemachus' portal seems to be deceptively simple. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blind stripling, wandering rocks, romantic tempers, ineluctable modality, pork kidney, floating flower, half sovereign, potted meat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Finnegans Wake, New York, Leopold Bloom, Little Review, Stephen Dedalus, Simon Dedalus, Buck Mulligan, Paddy Dignam, Martin Cunningham, Martha Clifford, Molly Bloom, Stuart Gilbert, Les Lauriers, Richie Goulding, Frank Budgen, Miss Dunne, Ben Dollard, John Eglinton, Ned Lambert, Stephen Hero, Barney Kiernan, Croppy Boy, Miss Douce, Alf Bergan, Daniel O'Connell New!
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- Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by James Joyce on 29 pages
- James Joyce (Oxford Lives) by Richard Ellmann on 8 pages
- Stephen Hero by James Joyce on 7 pages
- Chamber Music by James Joyce on 5 pages
- James Joyce (Twayne's English Authors Series) by A. Walton Litz on 4 pages
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- Modernism and the Celtic Revival by Gregory Castle in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Bronze by Gold: The Music of Joyce (Border Crossings) by Sebastian D.G. Knowles on page 168
- Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism (Routledge Companion Encyclopedias) by Martin Coyle on page 630
- Ulysses by Hugh Kenner in Back Matter
- The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes by Sarah Annes Brown in Back Matter
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