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Ulysses was written and proofread when James Joyce's vision was seriously blurred and impaired by iritis. The illness required him to use a magnifying glass to enlarge words, separating them out of context and distorting the simple letters in them. This book considers the effects of Joyce's iritis on the text of Ulysses.
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SAMLA Book Award Winner, 1995
"A critical tour de force that combines deft close readings and subtle theoretical speculation in an illuminating and original examination of one of modernism's central texts. . . . [Establishes] with convincing force the far-reaching implications of Joyce's physical problems in seeing for the composition and interpretation of Ulysses."--Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia, and chair, SAMLA Book Award Committee
"Delightful reading, involving the reader in the conspiracy of savoring minute details as part of a constantly developing overall pattern. No one has as yet provided so fine a mesh for containing the essentials of Joyce's Ulysses."--Bernard Benstock, University of Miami
"Gottfried has settled upon a highly evocative metaphor that delineates the complex intellectual operations of the composition and the interpretation of a sophisticated work of art. . . . From that specificity he is able to draw a fully generalized and illuminating view of the novel."--Michael Patrick Gillespie, Marquette University
Ulysses was written and proofread when James Joyce's vision was seriously blurred and impaired by iritis. The illness required him to use a magnifying glass to enlarge words, separating them out of context and distorting the simple letters in them. This book is the first study to consider the undermining effects of Joyce's iritis on the text of Ulysses.
Gottfried examines Ulysses much as Joyce must have tried to see it, in close readings of many small portions of the text, and with a quizzical eye. He locates the particular density and opacity of Ulysses in two sites: within the iritis in Joyce's eyes and within the body of the text with its irritated confusion of letters.
"No reader's eye can be trusted in seeing Ulysses," Gottfried claims. Instead, the reader is disoriented and infected with a particular kind of "Joycean dis-lexia," so that "a variety of instabilities arise from the reader's unclear view and reading of the novel."
The Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Zack Bowen.
About the Author
Roy Gottfried is associate professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is the author ofThe Art of Joyce's Syntax in "Ulysses" and of articles and reviews in the James Joyce Quarterly, Joyce Literary Supplement, and Joyce Broadsheet.
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- PublisherUniversity Press of Florida
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0813014042
- ISBN 13 9780813014043
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages208
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The Florida James Joyce Series. First printing. Volume is bound in cream cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book is in excellent condition. 208 pages. "Ulysses" was written and proofread when James Joyce's vision was seriously blurred and impaired by iritis. The illness required him to use a magnifying glass to enlarge words, separating them out of context and distorting the simple letters in them. This book considers the effects of Joyce's iritis on the text of "Ulysses". Gottfried examines "Ulysses" much as Joyce must have tried to see it, in close readings of many small portions of the text, and with a quizzical eye. He locates the particular density and opacity of "Ulysses" in two sites: within the iritis in Joyce's eyes and within the body of the text with its irritated confusion of letters. "No reader's eye can be trusted in seeing "Ulysses"", Gottfried claims. Instead, the reader is disoriented and infected with a particular kind of "Joycean dis-lexia", so that "a variety of instabilities arise from the reader's unclear view and reading of the novel". (Publisher's blurb) This work was awarded the 1995 Samla Book Award. Seller Inventory # ABE-1518242497089
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