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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784317603321

Autore

Sherry Vincent B.

Titolo

James Joyce's Ulysses / / Vincent Sherry [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14867-7

1-283-32913-1

0-511-16540-4

9786613329134

0-511-80946-8

0-511-16603-6

0-511-16408-4

0-511-56667-0

0-511-16488-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 125 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Landmarks of world literature

Disciplina

823/.912

Soggetti

Bloom, Leopold

English fiction - Greek influences

Dublin (Ireland) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-125).

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 1. Landmark: the ruined monument -- 2. Ireland and Europe: from the 1890s to the 1920s -- 3. Novel voices -- 2. Epic subjects -- 4. Telemachia -- 5. The odyssey -- 6. Nostos -- 7. "Wandering Rocks" and the art of gratuity -- 3. Lapsarian languages -- 8. Stephen Zero -- 9. Word incarnate, word carnival -- 10. Graphic lies -- P(ost) S(criptum) U(lysses) -- App. the schema.

Sommario/riassunto

In this engaging 2004 introduction, Vincent Sherry combines a close reading of Ulysses with critical arguments. He provides a useful guide to the episodic sequence of Joyce's novel. In addition, he presents a searching interpretation of this masterwork, addressing the major issues in Ulysses criticism. He shows how Joyce's modernist epic remodels Homer's Odyssey; he examines and explains Joyce's extraordinary verbal experiments; and he reads anew the most



challenging language of the text, the words through which the characters reveal their secret lives. He also reclaims the landmark status of Joyce's monumental novel, situating it in the relevant contexts of literary tradition and political history. This book is essential reading for all students of Joyce, whether they are approaching Ulysses for the first time or returning to the text.