Virgin And Veteran Readings Of Ulysses (new Directions In Irish And Irish American Literature)

Joyce scholar Margot Norris offers an innovative study of the processes of reading Ulysses as narrative and focuses on the unexplored implications, subplots, subtexts, hidden narratives, and narratology in one of the twentieth-century's most influential novels. Imagine reading a classic novel like JamesJoyce's Ulysses as though for the first time. Such an exercise, especially when informed by contemporarynarrative theory, makes possible a different reading experience of the work, one with a renewed focus on plot and a surprising amount of suspense. Veteran Joyce scholar Margot Norris offers an innovative study of the processes of reading Ulysses as narrative and focuses on the unexplored implications, subplots, subtexts, hidden narratives, and narratology in one of the twentieth century's most influential novels. It is a striking andessential contribution to literary criticismthat will change the readings and understandings of Joyce's most important work Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: Virgin Reading, Possible Worlds Theory, and the Odyssean Intertext of Ulysses....Pages 1-22 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 The Conflicts of Stephen Dedalus: From the “Telemachiad” to “Aeolus”....Pages 25-41 The Stakes of Stephen’s Gambit in “Scylla and Charybdis”....Pages 43-65 The Larger World of “Wandering Rocks”: The Case of Father Conmee....Pages 67-82 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 The Blooms: Secrets and Suspense in “Calypso” and “Lotus Eaters”....Pages 85-100 Jewish in Dublin: Bloom’s Encounters on the Way to “Cyclops”....Pages 101-114 An Anatomy of Anti-Semitism: The “Cyclops” Episode....Pages 115-134 The (Im)possible Worlds of “Oxen of the Sun”....Pages 135-155 “Circe”: Stephen’s and Bloom’s Catharsis....Pages 157-181 The Text as Salvation Army: Abjection and Perception in “Eumaeus”....Pages 183-198 Stephen Dedalus’s Anti-Semitic Ballad: A Sabotaged Climax in “Ithaca”....Pages 199-213 Front Matter....Pages 215-215 Molly Bloom before “Penelope”....Pages 217-235 The Worlds of “Penelope”....Pages 237-263 Back Matter....Pages 265-294 "Imagine reading a classic novel like James Joyce's Ulysses as though for the first time. Such an exercise, especially when informed by contemporary narrative theory, makes possible a different reading experience of the work, one with a renewed focus on plot and a surprising amount of suspense. Veteran Joyce scholar Margot Norris offers an innovative study of the processes of reading Ulysses as narrative and focuses on the unexplored implications, subplots, subtexts, hidden narratives, and narratology in one of the twentieth century's most influential novels. It is a striking and essential contribution to literary criticism that will change the readings and understandings of Joyce's most important work."--Provided by publisher Imagine reading a classic novel like James Joyce's Ulysses as though for the first time. Such an exercise, especially when informed by contemporary narrative theory, makes possible a different reading experience of the work, one with a renewed focus on plot and a surprising amount of suspense. Veteran Joyce scholar Margot Norris offers an innovative study of the processes of reading Ulysses as narrative and focuses on the unexplored implications, subplots, subtexts, hidden narratives, and narratology in one of the twentieth century's most influential novels. It is a striking and essential contribution to literary criticism that will change the readings and understandings of Joyce's most important work. -- Besedilo s hrbta knj Imagine reading a classic novel like James Joyce's Ulysses as though for the first time. Such an exercise, especially when informed by contemporary narrative theory, makes possible a different reading experience of the work, one with a renewed focus on plot and a surprising amount of suspense. Veteran Joyce scholar Margot Norris offers an innovative study of the processes of reading Ulysses as narrative and focuses on the unexplored implications, subplots, subtexts, hidden narratives, and narratology in one of the twentieth century's most influential novels. It is a striking and essential contribution to literary criticism that will change the readings and understandings of Joyce's most important work. -- Back Cover "Virgin and Veteran Readings of Ulysses is a brilliant example of how to read Joyce and the most consistently engaging book on Ulysses that I have read in many years. [This book] will influence a generation of scholars and teachers."--Patrick A. McCarthy, professor of English, University of Miami, and editor, James Joyce Literary Supplement