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Book SynopsisFew books in the English language seem to demand a companion more insistently than Ulysses. This volume offers fourteen concise and highly accessible essays by accomplished scholars that explore this masterpiece of world literature. It also includes numerous resources to aid both new and returning readers on their own Odyssean journey through the novel.
Table of Contents1. Writing Ulysses Michael Groden; 2. Reception history Joseph Brooker; 3. Afterlife Jonathan Goldman; 4. Beginnings Scarlett Baron; 5. Character, plot, myth Margot Norris; 6. Setting: Dublin 1904/1922 Enda Duffy; 7. Endings Maud Ellmann; 8. City circuits: 'Aeolus' and 'Wandering Rocks' Michael Rubenstein; 9. Memory: 'Sirens' Marjorie Howes; 10. Interruption: 'Cyclops' and 'Nausicaa' Sean Latham; 11. Difficulty: 'Oxen of the Sun' and 'Circe' Cheryl Herr; 12. Intertextuality Brandon Kershner; 13. Bodies Vike Plock; 14. Symbols and things Paul Saint-Amour.
