Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-126) and index
1. Contexts; 2. Language, Style and Form; 3. Reading Ulysses; 4. Critical Reception and Publishing History; 5. Adaptation, Interpretation and Influence; 6. Guide to Further Reading; Notes; Index
Ulysses remains less widely read than most texts boasting such a canonical status, largely due to misunderstanding about how to read it, and this guide provides an easy to follow remedy. By showing how Joyce reacted to the historical and cultural context in which he was situated, the radical nature of his use of language is laid bare in a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Ulysses . This approach enables the student reader to read and enjoy the novel's plurality of styles and to understand the terms of critical debate surrounding the nature and significance of Joyce's novel
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Joyce's debris / David Spurr -- Mkgnao! Mrkgnao! Mrkgrnao!: the Pussens perplex / John Gordon -- Why Leopold Bloom menstruates / Austin Briggs -- Mixing memory and desire: narrative strategies and the past in Ulysses / Richard P. Lynch -- Inventing identity in Ulysses: Kitty O'Shea, memoir, and Molly Bloom / Tracey Teets Schwarze -- Barracks and brothels: militarism and prostitution in Ulysses / Greg Winston -- In the beginning was the gest: theater, cinema, and the language of gesture in Circe / Anthony Paraskeva -- Reading music, performing text: interpreting the song of the Sirens / Katherine O'Callaghan -- Joyce, Ulysses, melodrama / Timothy Martin -- Modernity and its discontents: fashion and my girl's a Yorkshire girl / Yu-chen Lin -- Schopenhauer's shadow, or Stephen as a philosophic Superman / Gerald Gillaspie -- Days of our lives: the one-day novel as homage à Joyce / Robert Weninger -- Past its sell-by date: when to stop reading Joyce criticism / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- Secrets, narratology, and implicature: a virgin reading of Calypso / Margot Norris
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contributors readings that focus variously on the materialist, historical, and political dimensions of Ulysses. The diversity of topics covered include 19th-century psychology, military history, Catholic theology, the influence of early film and music hall songs on Joyce, the post-Ulysses evolution of the one-day novel, and the challenge of discussing such a complex work amongst the sea of extant criticism
