Recent criticism of James Joyce's Ulysses

"Since its appearance in 1922, James Joyce's novel Ulysses has remained extremely popular, never having gone out of print. Since the expiration of its copyright in the early 1990s, almost every major press in the U.S. and England has produced an edition of the novel. This widespread public interest, in turn, has led well-known literary critics - from T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound to Terry Eagleton and Homi Bhabha - to attempt to explain the intricacies of the great novel. Debate continues over even the most fundamental aspects of its plot, characterization, and themes. Every year, more and more scholars offer insights into the structure and style of Joyce's writing, the significance of his imagery, the consequences of his ideological dispositions, the association between his fictional representations and a myriad of cultural, social, and communal institutions and beliefs. Merely remaining cognizant of the range of views of Ulysses now offered has become a daunting task for any student of Joyce, especially in view of the explosion of critical viewpoints available to today's critics. While no single work could fully synthesize all that has been written on Ulysses, this book distinguishes the features of major methodological trends and important critical studies that have shaped our sense of Joyce's novel in recent years."--BOOK JACKET.

Year

2000

Language

English

Series

Studies in English and American Literature and Culture

Publisher

Camden House

Editions

1

Pages

154

ISBN

9781571132178

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