Ulysses and Us The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece

by Kiberd, Declan

• ISBN13: 9780393339093
• ISBN10: 0393339092
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-22
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Declan Kiberd, a professor of Anglo-Irish literature at the University College Dublin, offers an audacious new take on Joyce's classic novel. Ulysses , he argues, is a work written for and about the common person, offering a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life in the modern world. In this passionate corrective to the widespread view of Ulysses as an esoteric tome for the scholarly few, Kiberd dispells the aura of academic mystique that has attached itself to the novel, opening our eyes to Ulysses as a celebration of the everyday and a model for living well in an unpredictable world.

Author Biography

Declan Kiberd is the author of Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation, which won the Irish Times Prize. He lives in Dublin.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. IX
Note on the Text	p. XI
How Ulysses Didn't Change Our Lives	p. 3
How It Might Still Do So	p. 16
Paralysis, Self-Help and Revival	p. 32
Waking	p. 41
Learning	p. 53
Thinking	p. 64
Walking	p. 77
Praying	p. 89
Dying	p. 100
Reporting	p. 113
Eating	p. 124
Reading	p. 137
Wandering	p. 153
Singing	p. 168
Drinking	p. 181
Ogling	p. 193
Birthing	p. 206
Dreaming	p. 222
Parenting	p. 237
Teaching	p. 248
Loving	p. 260
Ordinary People's Odysseys	p. 277
Old Testaments and New	p. 296
Depression and After: Dante's Comedy	p. 313
Shakespeare, Hamlet and Company	p. 331
Conclusion: The Long Day Fades	p. 347
Notes	p. 359
Index	p. 381
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