The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Sean Latham
SeriesCambridge Companions to Literature
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:262
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9781107073906
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 4 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 27 October 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Few books in the English language seem to demand a companion more insistently than James Joyce's Ulysses, a work that at once entices and terrifies readers with its interwoven promises of pleasure, scandal, difficulty and mastery. This volume offers fourteen concise and accessible essays by accomplished scholars that explore this masterpiece of world literature. Several essays examine specific aspects of Ulysses, ranging from its plot and characters to the questions it raises about the strangeness of the world and the density of human cultures. Others address how Joyce created this novel, why it became famous and how it continues to shape both popular and literary culture. Like any good companion, this volume invites the reader to engage in an ongoing conversation about the novel and its lasting ability to entice, rankle, absorb, and enthrall.

Author Biography

Sean Latham is the Pauline Walter McFarlin Endowed Chair of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Tulsa, where he serves as editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, coeditor of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and codirector of the Modernist Journals Project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He writes and teaches in the areas of media studies, modernism, periodical studies and digital culture. He is the author or editor of several books, including Am I a Snob?: Modernism and the Novel (2003); The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman a Clef (2009); James Joyce: Visions and Revisions (2009); and Joyce's Modernism (2004). His articles have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, PMLA and New Literary History.