The Book About Everything
Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses
1st Edition
Published on 16. June 2022
432 pages
978-1-80110-440-1 (ISBN)
Description
To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text.
Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings them together is a common love of Ulysses.
Joseph O'Connor considers the music-saturated Sirens episode and David McWilliams writes about the bigotry and violence of nationalism on display in Cyclops. Irish obstetrician Rhona Mahony responds to Oxen and the Sun, set in a maternity hospital, journalist Lara Marlowe examines the Aeolus episode, which takes place in a newspaper office, and Irish philosopher Richard Kearney reflects on the erudite musings of Stephen Dedalus as he walks along Sandymount strand.
The Book About Everything counters the perception of Ulysses as the sole preserve of academics and instead showcases readers' responses to the book. It is a vivid, even eccentric collection, filled with life and Joycean spirit.
Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings them together is a common love of Ulysses.
Joseph O'Connor considers the music-saturated Sirens episode and David McWilliams writes about the bigotry and violence of nationalism on display in Cyclops. Irish obstetrician Rhona Mahony responds to Oxen and the Sun, set in a maternity hospital, journalist Lara Marlowe examines the Aeolus episode, which takes place in a newspaper office, and Irish philosopher Richard Kearney reflects on the erudite musings of Stephen Dedalus as he walks along Sandymount strand.
The Book About Everything counters the perception of Ulysses as the sole preserve of academics and instead showcases readers' responses to the book. It is a vivid, even eccentric collection, filled with life and Joycean spirit.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-80110-440-1 (9781801104401)
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Persons
Declan Kiberd is Professor of Irish Studies, English and Irish Language and Literature Emeritus, University of Notre Dame and the author of Inventing Ireland, Ulysses and Us, and After Ireland.
Enrico Terrinoni is Professor of English Literature, University of Perugia, the Italian translator of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and President of the James Joyce Italian Foundation.
Catherine Wilsdon is Keough-Naughton Programme Manager and Lecturer in Irish Literature, University of Notre Dame.
Enrico Terrinoni is Professor of English Literature, University of Perugia, the Italian translator of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and President of the James Joyce Italian Foundation.
Catherine Wilsdon is Keough-Naughton Programme Manager and Lecturer in Irish Literature, University of Notre Dame.
Content
- Intro
- About the editors
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- A Note from the Editors
- Telemachus - Joyce and the Greeks
- JOHN DILLON
- Nestor - Ulysses, Race and the New Bloomusalem
- RONIT LENTIN
- I. 'Ever and Always Alien': Anti-Semitism, Race and Racism
- II. 'Here Comes Everybody': Race, Racism and Denial
- III. 'The New Bloomusalem'
- Proteus
- RICHARD KEARNEY
- Calypso
- TIM PARKS
- Lotus-Eaters - Turn on, Tune in, Bloom out
- EDOARDO CAMURRI
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- Hades - Rites of Passage
- LAWRENCE TAYLOR
- Aeolus - Inside 'Aeolus' and The Irish Times, Everything is Copy
- LARA MARLOWE
- THE MACHINES CLANKED IN THREE-FOUR TIME. THUMP, THUMP, THUMP
- HOW A GREAT DAILY ORGAN IS TURNED OUT
- Lestrygonians
- MIKE FITZGERALD
- Scylla & Charybdis - Homer. Shakespeare. Joyce. Borges1
- CARLOS GAMERRO
- Wandering Rocks - The 'Retrospective Arrangement' of Dublin in 'Wandering Rocks'
- SHINJINI CHATTOPADHYAY
- Sirens - Sgt Joyce's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- JOSEPH O'CONNOR
- Cyclops - A Sneer and a Smile
- DEREK HAND
- What'll It Be?
- What Are You Looking At?
- You Had To Be There!
- Time's Up: Have You No Homes To Go To?
- One More For The Road?
- Nausicaa
- JHUMPA LAHIRI
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- Oxen of the Sun - Prescience and Parody
- RHONA MAHONY
- Circe - Night-Rule in Nighttown
- CAITRIONA LALLY
- Some Representations of the Mythical Circe in Other Literature
- 1. Homer's The Odyssey
- 2. Ovid's Metamorphoses
- 3. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 4. Louise Glück's poem 'Circe's Power'
- 5. Madeline Miller's novel Circe
- Piggishness
- Worlds Apart
- Time
- Portals
- Will-O'-The-Wisp and Hellish Links
- The Monto, Past and Present
- Commemorative Plaques
- 1901 Census
- Lists
- Sex
- Bloomusalem
- Compound Nouns
- Gender-bending
- Inanimate Objects and Abstract Concepts That Are Speaking Characters
- Snacks
- Alice in Wonderland
- Language Failing
- Different Language Registers
- Changeling Rudy
- Eumaeus - Leopold Bloom, Master-Economist
- DAVID MCWILLIAMS
- The Artist as Entrepreneur
- Enter Bloom
- The Citizen Economist
- The Bourgeois Outsider
- The Radical Centrist
- The Entrepreneur as Artist
- Ithaca - Reading as the Police
- ERIC A. LEWIS
- Surveillance in Ulysses
- Readers' Surveillance of Ulysses
- Conclusion
- Penelope
- MARINA CARR
- Works Cited
- Telemachus - Joyce and the Greeks
- Nestor - Ulysses, Race and the New Bloomusalem
- Proteus
- Lotus-Eaters - Turn on, Tune in, Bloom out
- Aeolus - Inside 'Aeolus' and The Irish Times, Everything is Copy
- Lestrygonians
- Scylla & Charybdis - Homer. Shakespeare. Joyce. Borges
- Wandering Rocks - The 'Retrospective Arrangement' of Dublin in 'Wandering Rocks'
- Sirens - Sgt Joyce's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Cyclops - A Sneer and a Smile
- Nausicaa
- Oxen of the Sun - Prescience and Parody
- Circe - Night-Rule in Nighttown
- Eumaeus - Leopold Bloom, Master-Economist
- Ithaca - Reading as the Police
- An Invitation from the Publisher
