How To Read Ulysses And Why - Dr. Jefferson Hunter

This Short Guidebook, Written Specifically For First-time Readers Of Ulysses By A Veteran Teacher Of Joyce's Novel, Offers A Way In To One Of The Most Pleasure-giving Books Ever Created. After An Introduction Surveying Joyce's Techniques, Both Traditional (the Creation Of Plausible Characters And A Fully Realized Dublin Setting) And Modern (interior Monologue, The Homeric Parallels, Stylistic Experimentation), An Episode-by-episode Commentary Leads Readers Through The Fictional Events Of June 16, 1904, Explaining Obscurities, Identifying Main Themes, Translating Foreign Phrases - In Short, Making Understandable The World Of Stephen Dedalus And Leopold And Molly Bloom. An Afterword Looks At Ulysses As A Whole, Arguing That Like All Comic Masterpieces It Applies A Sophisticated Treatment To Ordinary Materials.