Joyce: 'Ulysses'In this engaging introduction, Vincent Sherry combines a close reading of Ulysses with new 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, freshly addressing the major issues in Ulysses criticism. He shows how Joyce's modernist epic remodels Homer's Odyssey; and he examines and explains Joyce's extraordinary verbal experiments. This book is essential reading for all students of Joyce, whether they are approaching Ulysses for the first time or returning to the text. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
from the 1890s to the 1920s | 5 |
3 Novel voices | 13 |
Epic subjects | 22 |
4 Telemachia | 26 |
5 The odyssey | 32 |
6 Nostos | 58 |
7 Wandering Rocks and the art of gratuity | 63 |
Lapsarian languages | 73 |
8 Stephen Zero | 78 |
9 Word incarnate word carnival | 85 |
10 Graphic lies | 94 |
Post Scriptum Ulysses | 102 |
the schema | 113 |
Further reading | 117 |
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