Ulysses (New Casebooks, 113) - Softcover

Emig, Rainer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333546059 ISBN 13: 9780333546055

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2003

Synopsis

This collection of recent essays on James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, provides an up-to-date overview of debates in Joycean scholarship, with particular emphasis on gender, postcolonial and ideological critiques, and deconstructive readings. The essays are framed by an introduction that assesses particularity and universal schemes in Joyce's novel, including its role in modern literature.

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About the Author

RAINER EMIG is Professor of British Literature at the University of Regensburg. His main areas of research are nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, especially literary modernism, and critical and cultural theory.
RAINER EMIG is Professor of British Literature at the University of Regensburg. His main areas of research are nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, especially literary modernism, and critical and cultural theory.

From the Back Cover

This collection of critical essays on James Joyce's modernist masterpiece presents an overview of the most recent critical positions and introduces a number of new voices to the lively area of Joyce scholarship. Together, the essays comprehensively address the entire text of Ulysses from the stances of structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, gender and postcolonial studies, and present many views that challenge established thinking on Joyce and modernist literature. Framed by an introduction that assesses particularity and universal schemes in Joyce's novel, this essential volume will provide stimulating critical support for students and teachers alike.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333546059
• ISBN 13: 9780333546055
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 223