Reading Joyces Ulysses [Paperback]

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.Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: O, Rocks...Tell Us in Plain Words Joyce as Lord and Giver of Language: Form and Metaphor in Ulysses Joyce's Concept of a Hero The Odyssey of Reading Ulysses The Movement from Lyrical to Epical and Dramatic Form: The Opening of Ulysses Joyce's Irish Jew: Bloom The Concept of Artistic Paternity in Sycalla and Charybdis The Adventure of Reading: The Styles of the Odyssey and the Odyssey of Styles Circe as the Climax of Joyce's Humanistic Vision Metaphoricity in Eumaeus and Ithaca Penelope : Molly as Metaphor Appendix Selected Bibliography Index

'This is a thoughtful interpretation that serious students of Ulysses will welcome.' - Keith Cushman, Library Journal

'...Reading Joyce's Ulysses will no doubt be useful to the student stalled in confusion when reading Ulysses for the first time...' - A.D. Perls, Choice

'Instead of adding further chips to that mountain of critical apparatus which unfortunately frightens so many readers away, Schwarz emphasizes the joys that even a first reading of Ulysses can yield, and the ways in which the novel itself suggests how it should be read...' - Graham Bradshl³,