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Author Kiberd, Declan.

Title Ulysses and us : the art of everyday life in Joyce's masterpiece / Declan Kiberd.

Imprint New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  823.912 J853uDki 2009    ---  Available
Edition 1st American ed.
Description xi, 399 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-379) and index.
Contents How Ulysses didn't change our lives -- How it might still do so -- Paralysis, self-help and revival -- Waking -- Learning -- Thinking -- Walking -- Praying -- Dying -- Reporting -- Eating -- Reading -- Wandering -- Singing -- Drinking -- Ogling -- Birthing -- Dreaming -- Parenting -- Teaching -- Loving -- Ordinary people's odysseys -- Old testaments and new -- Depression and after : Dante's Comedy -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, and company -- The long day fades.
Summary Explores the lessons that modern readers can draw from Joyce's classic work, revealing how "Ulysses" presents a vision of a more tolerant and decent society in which the seemingly banal hero, Leopold Bloom, represents ordinary wisdom that can offer a model for living.
Subject Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.
Conduct of life in literature.
ISBN 9780393070996 : $28.95
0393070999
Standard No. NZ1 13063404
AU@ 000044071861
BWX R6807175

 
    
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