Joyce: Ulysses (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) Book

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...Read More