Screen LibraryUlysses and us：the art of everyday life in Joyce's masterpiece
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| Published: |
W.W. Norton & Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Ulysses. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 399 p.: ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780393070996 0393070999 |
| Index Number: | I562 |
| CLC: | I562.065 |
| Call Number: | I562.065/K462 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-379) and index. 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. 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. |