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Ulysses

Hugh Kenner

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A masterful introduction to James Joyce's Ulysses.

There is no book like Ulysses, and no book about it quite like this one. Now completely revised to correspond to the definitive new Galber edition, Hugh Kenner's ULYSSES for the first time becomes widley 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: 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...

A masterful introduction to James Joyce's Ulysses.

There is no book like Ulysses, and no book about it quite like this one. Now completely revised to correspond to the definitive new Galber edition, Hugh Kenner's ULYSSES for the first time becomes widley 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: 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 parrallels, the flow of episodes and style, and the enigma of Molly's final word. Joyceans, teacher, their students, and all other readers will find cause for rejoicing in ULYSSES.

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Page for page, the most illuminating book yet written about Joyce's novel... No one in nearly sixty years of intense critical activity has seen more than Kenner, or has described what he has seen with greater love and enthusiasm.

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Available
Trim Size
6
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9
Pages
192
ISBN
9780801833847
Table of Contents

Scheme of References
Chapter 1. Preliminary
Chapter 2. 'O, an Impossble Person!'
Chapter 3. Uses of Homer
Chapter 4. Immediate experience
Chapter 5. The Hidden Hero
Chapter 6. Stephen's Day
Chapter 7. The

Scheme of References
Chapter 1. Preliminary
Chapter 2. 'O, an Impossble Person!'
Chapter 3. Uses of Homer
Chapter 4. Immediate experience
Chapter 5. The Hidden Hero
Chapter 6. Stephen's Day
Chapter 7. The Arranger
Chapter 8. The Aesthetic of Delay
Chapter 9. Oceansong
Chapter 10. Maelstrom, Reflux
Chapter 11. Metempsychoses
Chapter 12. Death and Resurrection
Chapter 13. Lists, Myths
Chapter 14. The Gift of a Book
Appendices
1. The Date of Stephen's Fight
2. Bloom's Chest
3. The Circle and the Three Nines
Critical Sequels
Bibliography
Index

Author Bio
Hugh Kenner
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Hugh Kenner

Hugh Kenner, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, is the author of numerous books on James Joyce and other subjects. He is the author of The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy and Ulysses, revised edition.