Ulysses Summary
James Joyce

Ulysses by James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin. He was the eldest of 16 children born to Mary Jane Joyce and John Stanislaus Joyce. ... Read more

Title:  Ulysses Author:  James Joyce Release Date:  July, 2003 [EBook #4300] [This file was first posted on December 27, 2001] [Edition 12 posted June 30th, 2002] [Date last updated:&nb... Read more

Biography EssayFew writers have as secure a claim to be the major figure of the modernist period in literary history as James Joyce, a position that he prepared himself for with diligence and commitme... Read more

James Joyce is a monument of modernism in literature. In the opening passage of his biography, James Joyce, Richard Ellmann aptly summarized the writer's impact on twentieth-century letters, "We are s... Read more

Considered by many critics as the major writer of the twentieth century, James Joyce is nonetheless a minor poet both in the quantity and quality of his verse. The second of the ten children of John a... Read more

Rather than forging radically new means for fiction, the novels of James Joyce--A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939)--as well as his single short-s... Read more

In the following essay, Pagnattaro discusses the legal definitions of obscenity confronted by James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses when its publication was challenged by U.S. courts. What did I ... Read more

In the following essay, Alter perceives the character of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses as a version of the Greek epic hero. The reasons that drew Joyce to cast his modern Everyman in the mold of the cla... Read more