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 Index
A student-friendly guide enabling the new reader of Ulysses to understand, analyse and appreciate the most famous, and famously 'difficult', novel of the twentieth century.
Sean Sheehan is an independent scholar, having previously taught in the UK and abroad. His publications include The British Museum Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ancient Greece (2002), Socrates: Life and Times (2007), Žižek: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King: A Reader’s Guide (Bloomsbury, 2012).
‘In the canon of twentieth-century literature, Joyce's work is
unignorable, but daunting to many. This fresh, lively, lucid
introduction to Ulysses is admirably aware of the critical
literature, particularly recent postcolonial and historical
approaches, and is equipped with a helpful apparatus for
beginners.' - Andrew Gibson, Research Professor of Modern
Literature and Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London, and
former Segal Professor of Irish Literature at Northwestern
University, USA
"Sheehan continues his guides to anglophone literature by parsing
the novel considered by many to be one of the more difficult
canonical works by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941). He places
the writing of it within the political and social context of the
time, showing how distinct passages, with their plurality of
voices, reflect particular events in the non-fiction world. He
covers contexts; language, style, and form; reading Ulysses;
critical reception and publishing history; and adaptation,
interpretation, and influence." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS,
Inc.
Sean Sheehan's clearly written Joyce's 'Ulysses' adopts a sensible
approach: he provides some biographical details about Joyce, before
devoting the main body of the book to a chapter-by-chapter
examination of the plot and stylistic aspects of Ulysses.
*Forum for Modern Language Studies Vol. 47, No. 3*
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