| 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.
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Conduct of life in literature.
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| ISBN |
9780393070996 : $28.95 |
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0393070999 |
| Standard No. |
NZ1 13063404 |
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AU@ 000044071861 |
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BWX R6807175 |
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