Ulysses and Us
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Ulysses and Us

The Art of Everyday Living

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eBook - ePub

Ulysses and Us

The Art of Everyday Living

About this book

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world. As much a guide to contemporary life as it is virtuoso work of literary criticism, Ulysses and Us offers revolutionary insights to the scholar and the first-time reader alike.

Leopold Bloom, the half-Jewish Irishman who is the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, teaches the young Stephen Dedalus (modelled on Joyce himself) how he can grow and mature as an artist and an adult human being. Bloom has learned to live with contradictions, with anxiety and sexual jealousy, and with the rudeness and racism of the people he encounters in the city streets, and in his apparently banal way sees deeper than any of them. He embodies an intensely ordinary kind of wisdom, Kiberd argues, and in this way offers us a model for living well, in the tradition of the literature upon which Joyce drew in writing Ulysses, such as Homer, Dante and the Bible.

'Declan Kiberd's brilliantly informed and highly entertaining advocacy liberates Joyce's greatest book from the dungeon of unreadable masterpieces.' Joseph O'Connor

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2010
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780571258321
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Note on the Text
  7. How Ulysses Didn’t Change Our Lives
  8. How It Might Still Do So
  9. Paralysis, Self-Help and Revival
  10. 1. Waking
  11. 2. Learning
  12. 3. Thinking
  13. 4. Walking
  14. 5. Praying
  15. 6. Dying
  16. 7. Reporting
  17. 8. Eating
  18. 9. Reading
  19. 10. Wandering
  20. 11. Singing
  21. 12. Drinking
  22. 13. Ogling
  23. 14. Birthing
  24. 15. Dreaming
  25. 16. Parenting
  26. 17. Teaching
  27. 18. Loving
  28. Ordinary People’s Odysseys
  29. Old Testaments and New
  30. Depression and After: Dante’s Comedy
  31. Shakespeare, Hamlet and Company
  32. Conclusion: The Long Day Fades
  33. Index
  34. About the Author
  35. Praise
  36. By the Same Author
  37. Copyright

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