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| joyce ulysses guide: The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses Patrick Hastings, 2022-02-01 From the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, this essential guide to James Joyce's masterpiece weaves together plot summaries, interpretive analyses, scholarly perspectives, and historical and biographical context to create an easy-to-read, entertaining, and thorough review of Ulysses. In The Guide to James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' Patrick Hastings provides comprehensive support to readers of Joyce's magnum opus by illuminating crucial details and reveling in the mischievous genius of this unparalleled novel. Written in a voice that offers encouragement and good humor, this guidebook maintains a closeness to the original text and supports the first-time reader of Ulysses with the information needed to successfully finish and appreciate the novel. Deftly weaving together spirited plot summaries, helpful interpretive analyses, scholarly criticism, and explanations of historical and biographical context, Hastings makes Joyce's famously intimidating novel—one that challenges the conventions and limits of language—more accessible and enjoyable than ever before. He unpacks each chapter of Ulysses with episode guides, which offer pointed and readable explanations of what occurs in the text. He also deals adroitly with many of the puzzles Joyce hoped would keep the professors busy for centuries. Full of practical resources—including maps, explanations of the old British system of money, photos of places and things mentioned in the text, annotated bibliographies, and a detailed chronology of Bloomsday (June 16, 1904—the single day on which Ulysses is set)—this is an invaluable first resource about a work of art that celebrates the strength of spirit required to endure the trials of everyday existence. The Guide to James Joyce's 'Ulysses' is perfect for anyone undertaking a reading of Joyce's novel, whether as a student, a member of a reading group, or a lover of literature finally crossing this novel off the bucket list. |
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| joyce ulysses guide: James Joyce's Ulysses Bernard McKenna, 2002-01-30 Perhaps the most important literary achievement of the 20th century, Ulysses is also one of the most challenging. This reference introduces beginning readers to Joyce and his novel, removes some of the obstacles readers face when confronting his text, provides background information to facilitate understanding of the nuances of the book, and illuminates the critical dialogue surrounding his work. With the help of this guide, beginning readers will discover the rewards of reading the novel and find that they outweigh the potential obstacles to understanding Ulysses. To introduce readers to Joyce and his work, the volume begins with a short biography and a survey of the importance and cultural impact of Ulysses. Most beginning readers find it difficult to follow Joyce's plot, and so they abandon the text in frustration. Thus the book includes the most detailed available plot summary of Joyce's novel. The chapters that follow overview the novel's publication history; its historical and cultural contexts, including Modernism, Irish literature and history, and political and social trends; major themes and issues; Joyce's narrative art, including his character development, language, images, and style; and the academic and critical response to the work. The volume closes with a bibliographical essay. |
| joyce ulysses guide: The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses Sean Latham, 2014-10-27 Few books in the English language seem to demand a companion more insistently than James Joyce's Ulysses, a work that at once entices and terrifies readers with its interwoven promises of pleasure, scandal, difficulty and mastery. This volume offers fourteen concise and accessible essays by accomplished scholars that explore this masterpiece of world literature. Several essays examine specific aspects of Ulysses, ranging from its plot and characters to the questions it raises about the strangeness of the world and the density of human cultures. Others address how Joyce created this novel, why it became famous and how it continues to shape both popular and literary culture. Like any good companion, this volume invites the reader to engage in an ongoing conversation about the novel and its lasting ability to entice, rankle, absorb, and enthrall. |
| joyce ulysses guide: James Joyce's Dubliners Clive Hart, 1969 A fresh and varied reappraisal of the remarkable collection of stories that make up Joyce's Dubliners. |
| joyce ulysses guide: Ulysses Annotated Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman, 2008-01-14 Rev. ed. of: Notes for Joyce: an annotation of James Joyce's Ulysses, 1974. |
| joyce ulysses guide: Reading Joyce’s Ulysses Daniel R. Schwarz, 2016-07-27 Reissued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Reading Joyce's 'Ulysses' includes a new preface taking account of scholarly and critical development since its original publication. It shows how the now important issues of post-colonialism, feminism, Irish Studies and urban culture are addressed within the text, as well as a discussion of how the book can be used by both beginners and seasoned readers. Schwarz not only presents a powerful and original reading of Joyce's great epic novel, but discusses it in terms of a dialogue between recent and more traditional theory. Focusing on what he calls the odyssean reader, Schwarz demonstrates how the experience of reading Ulysses involves responding both to traditional plot and character, and to the novel's stylistic experiments. |
| joyce ulysses guide: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce, 2010-06-01 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is semi-autobiographical, following Joyce's fictional alter-ego through his artistic awakening. The young artist Steven Dedelus begins to rebel against the Irish Catholic dogma of his childhood and discover the great philosophers and artists. He follows his artistic calling to the continent. |
| joyce ulysses guide: The Most Dangerous Book Kevin Birmingham, 2014-06-12 Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction “The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura performance.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times James Joyce’s big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of Ulysses was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. Joyce, along with some of the most important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. The Most Dangerous Book tells the remarkable story surrounding Ulysses, from the first stirrings of Joyce’s inspiration in 1904 to the book’s landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933. Written for ardent Joyceans as well as novices who want to get to the heart of the greatest novel of the twentieth century, The Most Dangerous Book is a gripping examination of how the world came to say Yes to Ulysses. |
| joyce ulysses guide: The Ayenbite of Inwyt Written in the Dialect of the County of Kent Laurent (Dominican), 1855 |
| joyce ulysses guide: The Day of the Rabblement James Joyce, 1957 |
| joyce ulysses guide: James Joyce's Odyssey Frank Delaney, 1981 |
| joyce ulysses guide: Joyce's Dublin John F. McCarthy, Jack McCarthy, Danis Rose, 1992 |
| joyce ulysses guide: Joyce’s Nietzschean Ethics S. Slote, 2013-10-23 The first book-length treatment of James Joyce's work through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche's thought, Slote argues that the range of styles Joyce deploys has an ethical dimension. This intersection raises questions of epistemology, aesthetics, and the construction of the 'Modern' and will appeal to literary and philosophy scholars. |
| joyce ulysses guide: Getting to “Yes” Scunner Crabbit, 2020-02-29 Getting to “Yes” is a reading guide for those who are approaching James Joyce’s Ulysses for the first time. Ulysses is generally considered the world’s most difficult novel because you have to read it on so many levels. Getting to “Yes” guides the reader along the first level—that is, the literal story line itself—and introduces the reader to all the major characters and their interactions within the story line. |
| joyce ulysses guide: Ulysses by James Joyce James Joyce, 2020-10-08 The Original 1922 Edition. Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early twentieth-century context of modernism, Dublin, and Ireland's relationship to Britain. The novel imitates registers of centuries of English literature and is highly allusive. Since publication, Ulysses has attracted controversy and scrutiny, ranging from early obscenity trials to protracted textual Joyce Wars. Ulysses' stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose - full of puns, parodies, and allusions - as well as its rich characterization and broad humor, made the book a highly regarded novel in the modernist pantheon. Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate 16 June as Bloomsday. In 1998, the American publishing firm Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. |
| joyce ulysses guide: A Little Cloud James Joyce, 2025 »A Little Cloud« is a short story from James Joyce’s Dubliners. With Dubliners, Joyce aimed to cast his hometown, the experiences of his upbringing, in an unforgiving light. Considering how people, especially men, are portrayed here, it's no wonder that it took many years of constant rejections before the novel was finally published, in the fateful year of 1914 for Europe. The language in which all events are depicted is so vivid, incessantly so close to the very heart of the events, that James Joyce's first prose work has become one of the immortal classics. JAMES JOYCE [1882-1941], Irish author, is a key figure in modernist literature with works such as Dubliners [1914], A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1916], and Ulysses [1922]. |
| joyce ulysses guide: The Ulysses Guide Robert Nicholson, 2019 |
| joyce ulysses guide: No-Man's Lands Scott Huler, 2010-01-05 When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus. No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s funny and touching exploration of the life lessons embedded within The Odyssey, a legendary tale of wandering and longing that could be read as a veritable guidebook for middle-aged men everywhere. At age forty-four, with his first child on the way, Huler felt an instant bond with Odysseus, who fought for some twenty years against formidable difficulties to return home to his beloved wife and son. In reading The Odyssey, Huler saw the chance to experience a great vicarious adventure as well as the opportunity to assess the man he had become and embrace the imminent arrival of both middle age and parenthood. But Huler realized that it wasn’t enough to simply read the words on the page—he needed to live Odysseus’s odyssey, to visit the exotic destinations that make Homer’s story so timeless. And so an ambitious pilgrimage was born . . . traveling the entire length of Odysseus’s two-decade journey. In six months. Huler doggedly retraced Odysseus’s every step, from the ancient ruins of Troy to his ultimate destination in Ithaca. On the way, he discovers the Cyclops’s Sicilian cave, visits the land of the dead in Italy, ponders the lotus from a Tunisian resort, and paddles a rented kayak between Scylla and Charybdis and lives to tell the tale. He writes of how and why the lessons of The Odyssey—the perils of ambition, the emptiness of glory, the value of love and family—continue to resonate so deeply with readers thousands of years later. And as he finally closes in on Odysseus’s final destination, he learns to fully appreciate what Homer has been saying all along: the greatest adventures of all are the ones that bring us home to those we love. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part critical reading of the greatest adventure epic ever written, No-Man’s Lands is an extraordinary description of two journeys—one ancient, one contemporary—and reveals what The Odyssey can teach us about being better bosses, better teachers, better parents, and better people. |
| joyce ulysses guide: James Joyce's Ulysses Stuart Gilbert, 1952 |
| joyce ulysses guide: Ulysses Unbound Terence Killeen, 2022-01-20 Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty classic to reveal the wonders beneath, in a clear and comprehensive guide which will provide new and vital insights for everyone from students to specialists. In this new edition, published to celebrate the centenary of Ulysses' first publication in 1922, Killeen seamlessly combines close literary analysis with a broad account of the novel's fascinating history, from its writing and publication to its long contemporary afterlife. We get under the skin of the text to discover the joys of Joyce's remarkable range of themes, styles and voices, as Killeen reanimates the real people who inspired many of the characters. Ulysses Unbound is an indispensable, illuminating and entertaining companion to one of the twentieth century's great works of art. With a foreword by Colm Tóibín |
| joyce ulysses guide: Introducing Joyce David Norris, 2015-09-03 James Joyce is one of the most famous--and controversial--writers of the twentieth century. The myth of his difficulty has discouraged many readers from works such as Ulysses, but David Norris explores his life and work in this engaging and intellectually rigorous introduction. |
| joyce ulysses guide: The Boarding House James Joyce, 2014-07-15 Mrs. Mooney runs a boarding house for working men, and her daughter Polly entertains the men by singing and flirting. When Mrs. Mooney discovers that Polly is having an affair with one of the men, Mr. Doran, she tries to trap him into marrying her daughter. Critically acclaimed author James Joyce’s Dubliners is a collection of short stories depicting middle-class life in Dublin in the early twentieth century. First published in 1914, the stories draw on themes relevant to the time such as nationalism and Ireland’s national identity, and cement Joyce’s reputation for brutally honest and revealing depictions of everyday Irish life. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library. |
| joyce ulysses guide: James Joyce's Dublin Ian Gunn, Clive Hart, Harald Beck, 2004 The neighborhoods and establishments in Dublin that appeared in the novel Ulysses are examined, showing how the novel works in terms of time and place, allowing the reader to approach Dublin from the perspective of a Dubliner in 1904. |
| joyce ulysses guide: Ulysses James Joyce, 2022 Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. |
| joyce ulysses guide: The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes James Joyce, Catherine Flynn, 2022-06-23 James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. This new edition - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years. |
| joyce ulysses guide: The New Bloomsday Book Harry Blamires, 2008-03-07 Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have taken several readings to achieve. The New Bloomsday Book is a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of Ulysses which illuminates symbolic themes and structures along the way. It is a highly accessible, indispensible guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time. To ensure that Blamires' classic work will remain useful to new readers, this third edition contains the page numbering and references to three commonly read editions of Ulysses: the Oxford University Press 'World Classics' (1993), the Penguin 'Twentieth-Century Classics' (1992), and the Gabler 'Corrected Text' (1986) editions. |
| joyce ulysses guide: The Argument of Ulysses Stanley Sultan, 1964 |
| joyce ulysses guide: Time and Identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey Stephanie Nelson, 2022-07-05 A comparative study of two classic literary works, from a specialist in Joyce and Homer Time and Identity in “Ulysses” and the “Odyssey” offers a unique in-depth comparative study of two classic literary works, examining essential themes such as change, the self, and humans’ dependence on and isolation from others. Stephanie Nelson shows that in these texts, both Joyce and Homer address identity by looking at the paradox of time—that people are constantly changing yet remain the same across the years. In Nelson’s analysis, both Ulysses and the Odyssey explore dichotomies including the permanence of names and shifting of stories, independence and connection, and linear and cyclical narrative. Nelson discusses Homer’s contrast of ordinary to mythic time alongside Joyce’s contrast of “clocktime” to experienced time. She analyzes the characters Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, alienated from their previous selves; Telemachus and Stephen Dedalus, trapped by the past; and Penelope and Molly Bloom, able to recast time through weaving, storytelling, and memory. These concepts are also explored through Joyce’s radically different narrative styles and Homer’s timeless world of the gods. Nelson’s thorough knowledge of ancient Greece, Joyce, narratology, oral tradition, and translation results in a volume that speaks across literary specializations. This book makes the case that Ulysses and the Odyssey should be read together and that each work highlights and clarifies aspects of the other. As Joyce’s characters are portrayed as both flux and fixity, readers will see Homer’s hero fight his way out of myth and back into the constant changes of human existence. A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles |
| joyce ulysses guide: A Reader's Guide to James Joyce William York Tindall, 1968 |
| joyce ulysses guide: Ulysses and Us Declan Kiberd, 2010 Offering an audacious new take on Joyce's classic modern novel Ulysses, Kiberd argues the novel is not an esoteric tome for the scholarly few but rather a work written both about and for the common person, and explains how it can teach readers to live better lives. |
| joyce ulysses guide: Joyce's Voices Hugh Kenner, 2007 An original and entertaining study of, chiefly, Ulysses . . . This is a most stimulating book. Anthony Burgess |
| joyce ulysses guide: Romping Through Ulysses Niall Laverty, Maite López-Schröder, 2021 |
| joyce ulysses guide: The Works of James Joyce James Joyce, 1995 W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, Yeats's work is essential. This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered) to the magnificent later poems which put beyond question his status as major poet of modern times. Paradoxical, proud and passionate, Yeats speaks today as eloquently as ever. |
| joyce ulysses guide: Who's Afraid of James Joyce? Karen Lawrence, 2012-02-29 The author of the acclaimed The Odyssey of Style in Ulysses here presents her thinking on James Joyce dating from that landmark work. Who's Afraid of James Joyce? is consistently erudite and thought provoking.--John Gordon, Connecticut College Contains riches and will become an essential resource for new generations of Joyce critics looking to build on Lawrence's immense contributions to the field. The glittering intelligence of the individual pieces in this collection reminds us that each time Lawrence returns to Joyce's body of work, she manages not just to extract a creative reading, but to develop a fundamentally new way of approaching these immensely influential stories and novels.--Sean Latham, University of Tulsa The development of Joycean studies into a respected and very large subdiscipline of modernist studies can be traced to the work of several important scholars. Among those who did the most to document Joyce's work, Karen Lawrence can easily be considered one of that elite cadre. A retrospective of decades of work on Joyce, this collection includes published journal articles, book chapters, and selections from her best known work (all updated and revised), along with one new essay. Featuring engaging close readings of such Joyce works as Dubliners and Ulysses, it will be a welcome addition to any serious Joycean's library and will prove extremely useful to new generations of Joyce critics looking to build on Lawrence's expansive scholarship. Both readable and lively, this work may inspire a lifetime of reading, re-reading, and teaching Joyce. Karen R. Lawrence is president of Sarah Lawrence College. She has authored and edited several other books, most recently Transcultural Joyce. |
| joyce ulysses guide: Molly Bloom's Soliloquy James Joyce, 2014-05-10 Molly Bloom's famous soliloquy from James Joyce's Ulysses is a languorous internal monologue, in which the passionate wife of Leopold Bloom meditates on love and life. While Bloom sleeps beside her (head to toe), Molly recalls her many infidelities, including the energetic sexual encounter enjoyed that very afternoon. Though difficult to read straight from the page, Marcella Riordan's beautiful reading of this passage brings out all the wit and passion of one of the finest passages of writing in modern literature. |
| joyce ulysses guide: Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses Sam Slote, Marc A. Mamigonian, John Turner, 2024-02-22 An expansive commentary to James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses with over 12,000 annotations that explain its many references from Shakespeare to popular culture, from Aquinas to horse racing, and from Dante to Dublin slang. |
| joyce ulysses guide: Shakespeare and Company Sylvia Beach, 1987 |
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A guide for readers of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, including background info, individual episode guides, photographs, maps, and other helpful resources.
UlyssesGuide.com — 14. Oxen of the Sun
A guide to help readers understand the "Oxen of the Sun" episode in James Joyce's Ulysses.
1. Telemachus Guide - UlyssesGuide.com
A resource for reading and understanding the "Telemachus" episode of James Joyce's Ulysses.
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The content of this website was significantly revised and enhanced for publication in 2022 as a book, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses, available for purchase now. Also, an Instagram …
Suggested Habits for Reading James Joyce's Ulysses
Joyce trains you in how to read his novel, beginning with challenging but rather short chapters. If you finish each episode the same day you start, you will build the momentum and confidence …
The Odyssey: a Brush Up Before You Read Joyce's Ulysses
Everyone (not just Aunt Josephine) could use a brush up on the major themes and plot elements before embarking on a reading of Ulysses. You'll notice that Joyce titled the episodes of his …
UlyssesGuide.com — 15. Circe
“Circe” takes up nearly 150 pages in the Gabler edition of Ulysses, making it about as long as the first eight episodes of the novel combined. Worried over Stephen’s drunken condition, Bloom …
Ulysses Schema - UlyssesGuide.com
The organizing schema and thematic architecture provided by Joyce himself for understanding Ulysses.
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A resource for reading and understanding the “Cyclops” episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
UlyssesGuide.com — Joyce Ulysses Eumaeus Guide
A guide to help readers understand the "Eumaeus" episode in James Joyce's Ulysses.
UlyssesGuide.com
A guide for readers of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, including background info, individual episode guides, photographs, maps, and other helpful resources.
UlyssesGuide.com — 14. Oxen of the Sun
A guide to help readers understand the "Oxen of the Sun" episode in James Joyce's Ulysses.
1. Telemachus Guide - UlyssesGuide.com
A resource for reading and understanding the "Telemachus" episode of James Joyce's Ulysses.
UlyssesGuide.com — About/Questions
The content of this website was significantly revised and enhanced for publication in 2022 as a book, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses, available for purchase now. Also, an Instagram …
Suggested Habits for Reading James Joyce's Ulysses
Joyce trains you in how to read his novel, beginning with challenging but rather short chapters. If you finish each episode the same day you start, you will build the momentum and confidence you …
The Odyssey: a Brush Up Before You Read Joyce's Ulysses
Everyone (not just Aunt Josephine) could use a brush up on the major themes and plot elements before embarking on a reading of Ulysses. You'll notice that Joyce titled the episodes of his epic …
UlyssesGuide.com — 15. Circe
“Circe” takes up nearly 150 pages in the Gabler edition of Ulysses, making it about as long as the first eight episodes of the novel combined. Worried over Stephen’s drunken condition, Bloom has …
Ulysses Schema - UlyssesGuide.com
The organizing schema and thematic architecture provided by Joyce himself for understanding Ulysses.
UlyssesGuide.com — Cyclops Episode Reading Guide
A resource for reading and understanding the “Cyclops” episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
UlyssesGuide.com — Joyce Ulysses Eumaeus Guide
A guide to help readers understand the "Eumaeus" episode in James Joyce's Ulysses.
