Description
With characteristic flair, Kenner explores the ways Joyce teaches us to read his novel as Joyce taught himself to write it: moving from the simple to the complex, from the familiar to the strange and new, from the norms of the nineteenth-century novel to the open forms of modernism.
About the Author
Reviews
Page for page, the most illuminating book yet written about Joyce's novel... No one in nearly sixty years of intense critical activity has seen more than Kenner, or has described what he has seen with greater love and enthusiasm. -- A. Walton Litz Times Literary Supplement
Book Information
ISBN 9780801833847
Author Hugh Kenner
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 227g
A masterful introduction to James Joyce's Ulysses.
About the Author
Hugh Kenner, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, is the author of numerous books on James Joyce and other subjects. He is the author of The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy.
Reviews
Page for page, the most illuminating book yet written about Joyce's novel... No one in nearly sixty years of intense critical activity has seen more than Kenner, or has described what he has seen with greater love and enthusiasm. -- A. Walton Litz Times Literary Supplement
Book Information
ISBN 9780801833847
Author Hugh Kenner
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 227g
