Ulysses & Us Cl

by Kiberd,Declan

• ISBN13: 9780393070996
• ISBN10: 0393070999
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-28
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Offering an audacious new take on Joyce's classic modern novel "Ulysses," Kiberd argues the novel is not an esoteric tome for the scholarly few but rather a work written both about and for the common person, and explains how it can teach readers to live better lives.

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
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.