A Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses [Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism]

by Margot Norris (Editor)

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This companion volume to James Joyce's Ulysses offers students an avenue into the novel and at the same time introduces them to five important contemporary critical approaches: deconstruction by Jacques Derrida; reader response criticism by Wolfgang User; feminist and gender criticism by Vicki Mahaffey; psychoanalytic criticism by Kimberly J. Devlin; and Marxist criticism by Patrick McGee.

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I read this along with Ulysses and it helped me understand the text and offered some context about the book, its times, and its creation. There are also five critical essays from various perspectives.
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Margot Norris is Chancellor's Professor Emerita at the University of California, Irvine and a former president of the International James Joyce Foundation. Her books on the works of James Joyce include The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake, Joyce's Web, Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners, and she has also edited A Companion to James show more Joyce's Ulysses and the Norton Critical Edition of Joyce's Dubliners. show less

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A Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses [Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism]
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James Joyce

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Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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823.912Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991901-1945
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PR6019 .O9 .U6375Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1900-1960
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