Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each episode has its own literary style, and the epic journey of Odysseus is only one of many correspondencies that add layers of meaning to the text.
Today critical interest centres on the authority of the text, and this edition, complete with an invaluable introduction, notes, and appendices, republishes without interference, the original 1922 text. Jeri Johnson's commentary guides the reader through this highly allusive novel in an edition acclaimed by scholars and general readers alike.
This updated edition includes new explanatory notes, a revised introduction, and expanded bibliography.
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Jeri Johnson is Peter Thompson Fellow and Tutor in English at Exeter College, Oxford, and Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford. She came to England from America in 1978 and worked at Oxford with Richard Ellman, who inspired her interest in, and love of, Joyce. She has written on Joyce, textual theory, feminist literary theory, and Virginia Woolf.
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A century after James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses, the novel’s impact continues to be felt by Dubliners and literature fans around the world https://t.co/o8DXVSslQT
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Today is both the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of Ulysses and James Joyce’s 140th birthday. In our January 13 issue, Anne Enright took the occasion of the novel’s centennial year to revisit Dublin and Leopold Bloom’s very long day. https://t.co/I4wumDh5jJ
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Thanks to James Joyce's ULYSSES, we know every detail of Dublin’s streets, the city’s pubs, the places where people lived and labored in 1904. Celebrating #ulysses100: https://t.co/wE6uOLuyZB