How to read Ulysses and why / Jefferson Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Jefferson, 1947-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.

Joyce, James.

Ulysses (Joyce, James).

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

x, 117 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, [2002]

Summary:

"This short guidebook, written specifically for first-time readers of Ulysses by a veteran teacher of Joyce's novel, offers a way in to one of the most pleasure-giving books ever created. After an introduction surveying Joyce's techniques, both traditional (the creation of plausible characters and a fully realized Dublin setting) and modern (interior monologue, the Homeric parallels, stylistic experimentation), an episode-by-episode commentary leads readers through the fictional events of June 16, 1904, explaining obscurities, identifying main themes, translating foreign phrases - in short, making understandable the world of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold and Molly Bloom.

An afterword looks at Ulysses as a whole, arguing that like all comic masterpieces it applies a sophisticated treatment to ordinary materials. An annotated bibliography suggests further resources for studying the novel."--Jacket.

Contents:

Gerty MacDowell as a character in a novel 2

Joyce and Homer 6

Interior monologue 10

World versus word 14

Outline of Ulysses 19

Guide to the Events of June 16, 1904 23

Telemachus 23

Nestor 28

Proteus 31

Calypso 37

Lotus Eaters 41

Hades 44

Aeolus 48

Lestrygonians 52

Scylla and Charybdis 55

Wandering Rocks 60

Sirens 65

Cyclops 69

Nausicaa 73

Oxen of the Sun 78

Circe 83

Eumaeus 91

Ithaca 95

Penelope 99.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-117).

Other Format:

Online version: Hunter, Jefferson, 1947- How to read Ulysses and why.

ISBN:

0820456683

9780820456683

OCLC:

47297627