Ulysses / Hugh Kenner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenner, Hugh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.

Joyce, James.

Physical Description:

182 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

Summary:

There is no book like Ulysses, and no book about it quite like this one. Now completely revised to correspond to the definitive new Gabler edition, Hugh Kenner's Ulysses for the first time becomes widely available in the United States.

With characteristic flair, Kenner explores the ways Joyce teaches us to read his novel as Joyce taught himself to write it: moving from the simple to the complex, from the familiar to the strange and new, from the norms of the nineteenth-century novel to the open forms of modernism. Kenner offers new interpretations on a wide range of topics and details, including the Homeric parallels, the flow of episodes and styles, and the enigma of Molly's final word. Joyceans, teachers, their students, and all other readers will find cause for rejoicing in Ulysses.

Contents:

Scheme of References

1 Preliminary 1

2 'O, an Impossible Person!' 6

3 Uses of Homer 19

4 Immediate Experience 31

5 The Hidden Hero 43

6 Stephen's Day 55

7 The Arranger 61

8 The Aesthetic of Delay 72

9 Oceansong 83

10 Maelstrom, Reflux 93

11 Metempsychoses 107

12 Death and Resurrection 118

13 Lists, Myths 134

14 The Gift of a Book 146

1 The Date of Stephen's Flight 161

2 Bloom's Chest 164

3 The Circle and the Thrce Nines 166

Critical Sequels 169.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [174]-179.

ISBN:

0801834899

0801833841

OCLC:

14586552