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Genre/Form: | Allegories Domestic fiction Fiction Psychological fiction Stream of consciousness fiction Electronic books Epic fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: (DLC) 92050221 (OCoLC)25831869 |
Material Type: | Document, Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Joyce |
ISBN: | 9780679641629 0679641629 1299216366 9781299216365 |
OCLC Number: | 294999199 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 783 pages). |
Series Title: | The Modern library of the world's best books |
Responsibility: | James Joyce ; with a foreword by Morris L. Ernst, and the 1933 decision of the U.S. District Court rendered by Judge John M. Woolsey lifting the ban on the entry of Ulysses into the United States. |
Abstract:
Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main character, Leopold Bloom, during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the books stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism. Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival.
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