James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study
With the passing of each year, Ulysses receives wider recognition and greater acclaim as a modern literary classic. To comprehend Joyce's masterpiece fully, to gain insight into its significance and structure, the serious reader will find this analytical and systematic guide invaluable. In this...
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With the passing of each year, Ulysses receives wider recognition and greater acclaim as a modern literary classic. To comprehend Joyce's masterpiece fully, to gain insight into its significance and structure, the serious reader will find this analytical and systematic guide invaluable. In this exegesis, written under Joyce's supervision, Stuart Gilbert presents a work that is at once scholarly, authoritative and stimulating.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780394700137 (0394700139)
ASIN: 394700139
Publish date: January 1st 1987
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 405
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Lit Crit,
Literary Fiction,
Irish Literature,
Ireland
It’s hard to resist the idea of a guide to Ulysses endorsed by Joyce himself, but at times I wondered if Joyce’s approval of this book may have been a joke in itself. I’m almost certain that he parodied Gilbert’s pedantic and tiresome style somewhere in Ulysses. This book seems to be mostly a series...
When you need a 450-page book to understand an 800-page book, you are in deep water.
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