Ulysses [Paperback]

This collection of recent essays on James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, provides an up-to-date overview of debates in Joycean scholarship, with particular emphasis on gender, postcolonial and ideological critiques, and deconstructive readings. The essays are framed by an introduction that assesses particularity and universal schemes in Joyce's novel, including its role in modern literature.This collection of recent essays on James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, provides an up-to-date overview of debates in Joycean scholarship, with particular emphasis on gender, postcolonial and ideological critiques, and deconstructive readings. The essays are framed by an introduction that assesses particularity and universal schemes in Joyce's novel, including its role in modern literature.

Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction: Ulysses' Small Universes; R.Emig.- James Joyce: The Limits of Modernism and the Realms of the Literary Text; R.Lehan.- 'Proteus' and Prose: Paternity or Workmanship?; M.Murphy.- The Disappointed Bridge: Textual Hauntings in Ulysses; J.A.Weinstock.- Ulysses: City, Nation and Memory; A.Woodruff.- 'The Void Awaits Surely All Them That Weave the Wind': 'Penelope' and 'Sirens'; M.Stanier.- Wasted Words: The Body Language of Joyce's 'Nausicaa'; C.D.McLean.- Cribs in the Countinghouse: Plagiarism, Proliferation, and Labour in 'Oxen of the Sun'; M.Osteen.- 'Circe': Joyce's Argumentum ad Feminam; E.Plonowska Ziarek.- 'Circe' and the Uncanny, or Joyce from Freud to Marx; M.B.McDonald.- Molly Alone: Questioning Community and Closure in the 'Nostos'; E.Duffy.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

RAINER EMIG is Professor of British Literature at the University of Regensburg. His main areas of research are nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, especially literary modernism, and critical and cultural theory.This collection of critical essays on James Joyce's mlc4