Bloomsday 100 essays on Ulysses

Beja, Morris. (Added Author). Fogarty, Anne, 1958- (Added Author). Bloomsday 100 Symposium (2004 : Dublin, Ireland) (Added Author).

Summary: Contributors readings that focus variously on the materialist, historical, and political dimensions of Ulysses. The diversity of topics covered include 19th-century psychology, military history, Catholic theology, the influence of early film and music hall songs on Joyce, the post-Ulysses evolution of the one-day novel, and the challenge of discussing such a complex work amongst the sea of extant criticism.

Record details

ISBN: 9780813043210 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0813043212 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780813034027 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0813034027 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xii, 254 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Papers from the Bloomsday 100 Symposium, held in the National College of Ireland, Dublin, June 12-19, 2004. CatBulkString:jan.03.13 CatMonthString:mar.13 Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 CatBulkString:mar.12.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Joyce's debris / David Spurr -- Mkgnao! Mrkgnao! Mrkgrnao!: the Pussens perplex / John Gordon -- Why Leopold Bloom menstruates / Austin Briggs -- Mixing memory and desire: narrative strategies and the past in Ulysses / Richard P. Lynch -- Inventing identity in Ulysses: Kitty O'Shea, memoir, and Molly Bloom / Tracey Teets Schwarze -- Barracks and brothels: militarism and prostitution in Ulysses / Greg Winston -- In the beginning was the gest: theater, cinema, and the language of gesture in Circe / Anthony Paraskeva -- Reading music, performing text: interpreting the song of the Sirens / Katherine O'Callaghan -- Joyce, Ulysses, melodrama / Timothy Martin -- Modernity and its discontents: fashion and my girl's a Yorkshire girl / Yu-chen Lin -- Schopenhauer's shadow, or Stephen as a philosophic Superman / Gerald Gillaspie -- Days of our lives: the one-day novel as homage à Joyce / Robert Weninger -- Past its sell-by date: when to stop reading Joyce criticism / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- Secrets, narratology, and implicature: a virgin reading of Calypso / Margot Norris.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.