James Joyce's "Ulysses"

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 and Fritz 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 Joyce had 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 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.

ISBN 0195158318   Pages 284 ISBN13 9780195158311 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc   Weight (grammes) 327 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc   Published in New York Format Paperback   Series title Casebooks in Criticism Publication date 26 Feb 2004   Height (mm) 208 Library of Congress PR6019.O9   Width (mm) 136 DEWEY 823.912   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

		Introduction by Derek Attridge		3
		The Arranger by Hugh Kenner		17
		Book of Many Turns by Fritz Senn		33
		Art and Life, nature and Culture, Ulysses by Cheryl Herr		55
		The Ghosts of Ulysses by Maud Ellmann		83
		The Female Body, Technology, and Memory in "Penelope" by Ewa Zearer		103
		Reading Ulysses: Agency, Ideology, and the Novel by Mark A. Wollaeger		129
		Ulysses, Narrative, and History by Emer Nolan		155
		The Decomposing Form of Joyce's Ulysses by Henry Staten		173
		Against Ulysses by Leo Bersani		201
		Intentional Error: The Paradox of Editing Joyce's Ulysses by Vicki Mahaffey		231
		Conversations with Joyce (1934) by Frank Budgen		257
App		The Schema of Ulysses		267
		Suggested Reading		271

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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