Joyce: Ulysses (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) - Softcover

Sherry, Vincent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521539765 ISBN 13: 9780521539760

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: Jan. 2004 Pages: 148 Publisher: Camidge. University Press In this engaging introduction Vincent Sherry combines a close Reading of Ulysses with new critical arguments. He provides a useful guide to of 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; 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 Ul...

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In this engaging 2004 introduction, Vincent Sherry combines a close reading of Ulysses with critical arguments. This book is essential reading for all students of Joyce, whether they are approaching Ulysses for the first time or returning to the text.

Synopsis:

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; 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521539765
• ISBN 13: 9780521539760
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 148