James Joyce's Ulysses: A Casebook by Derek Attridge (English) Hardcover Book

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This selection of critical essays offers guidance and stimulation to readers, representing some of the best accounts of the novel to have been published during the past twenty years. An introduction discusses the writing and reading of Ulysses, and conversations with Joyce about the book are also included.

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James Joyce's Ulysses is probably the most famous-or notorious-novel published in the twentieth century. Its length and difficulty mean that readers often turn to critical studies to help them in getting the most out of it. But the vast quantity of secondary literature on the book poses problems for readers, who often don't know where to begin. This casebook includes some of the most influential critics to have written on Joyce, such as Hugh Kenner andFritz Senn, as well as newer voices who have made a considerable impact in recent years. A wide range of critical schools is represented, from textual analysis to historical and psychoanalytic approaches, fromfeminism to post-colonialism. One essay considers the relation between art and life, nature and culture, in Ulysses, while another explores the implications of the impassioned debates about the proper editing of Joyce's great work. In an iconoclastic discussion of the book, Leo Bersani finds reasons for giving up reading Joyce. All the contributions are characterized by scrupulous attention to Joyce's words and a sense of the powerful challenge his work offers to our ways of thinkingabout ourselves, our world, and our language. Also included are records of some of the conversations Joyce had with his friend Frank Budgen during the composition of Ulysses in Zurich, and in an appendix readerswill find a version of the schema which Joyce drew up as a guide to his book. Derek Attridge provides an introduction that offers advice on reading Ulysses for the first time, an account of the remarkable story of its composition, and an outline of the history of the critical reception that has played such an important part in our understanding and enjoyment of this extraordinary work.

Author Biography

Derek Attridge is Professor of English at the University of York.

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James Joyce's Ulysses: A Casebook gathers together a diverse selection of Joycean criticism from the past 70 years or so. Such an approach allows for essays that move between the realms of style and form, to more theoretical and ideological engagements with the novel. Irish Times

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Presents a range of the most important essays published on Joyce's great novel

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James Joyce's Ulysses is probably the most famous-or notorious-novel published in the twentieth century. Its length and difficulty mean that readers often turn to critical studies to help them in getting the most out of it. But the vast quantity of secondary literature on the book poses problems for readers, who often don't know where to begin. This casebook includes some of the most influential critics to have written on Joyce, such as Hugh Kenner andFritz Senn, as well as newer voices who have made a considerable impact in recent years. A wide range of critical schools is represented, from textual analysis to historical and psychoanalytic approaches, from feminism to post-colonialism. One essay considers the relation between art and life, nature and culture,in Ulysses, while another explores the implications of the impassioned debates about the proper editing of Joyce's great work. In an iconoclastic discussion of the book, Leo Bersani finds reasons for giving up reading Joyce. All the contributions are characterized by scrupulous attention to Joyce's words and a sense of the powerful challenge his work offers to our ways of thinking about ourselves, our world, and our language. Also included are records of some of the conversations Joycehad with his friend Frank Budgen during the composition of Ulysses in Zurich, and in an appendix readers will find a version of the schema which Joyce drew up as a guide to his book. Derek Attridge provides an introduction that offers advice on reading Ulysses for the first time, an account of the remarkablestory of its composition, and an outline of the history of the critical reception that has played such an important part in our understanding and enjoyment of this extraordinary work.

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James Joyce's Ulysses: A Casebook gathers together a diverse selection of Joycean criticism from the past 70 years or so. Such an approach allows for essays that move between the realms of style and form, to more theoretical and ideological engagements with the novel.

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Presents a range of the most important essays published on Joyce's great novelIncludes records of conversations Joyce had during the writing of the book and a version of the schema that Joyce drew upon as a guide to Ulysses

Details ISBN019515830X Pages 288 Series Casebooks in Criticism Language English ISBN-10 019515830X ISBN-13 9780195158304 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 823.912 Subtitle A Casebook Edited by Derek Attridge Author Derek Attridge Short Title JAMES JOYCES ULYSSES Illustrations black & white illustrations Position Leverhume Research Professor at University of York, and Distingushed Visiting Professor Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Affiliation Leverhume Research Professor at University of York, and Distingushed Visiting Professor, Rutgers University DOI 10.1604/9780195158304 UK Release Date 2004-02-05 AU Release Date 2004-02-05 NZ Release Date 2004-02-05 US Release Date 2004-02-05 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Year 2004 Publication Date 2004-02-05 Alternative 9780195158311 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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