Ulysses Explained: How Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare Inform Joyce’s Modernist Vision

by David Weir

When it comes to James Joyce's landmark work, Ulysses , the influence of three literary giants, Homer, Shakespeare, and Dante, cannot be overlooked. Examining Joyce in terms of Homeric narrative, Dantesque structure, and Shakespearean plot, Weir rediscovers Joyce's novel through the lens of his renowned predecessors.

266 pages, Hardcover

First published June 4, 2015

About the author

David Weir received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University. He is the author of Decadence and the Making of Modernism (University of Massachusetts Press, 1995), James Joyce and the Art of Mediation (University of Michigan Press, 1996), Anarchy and Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997), Brahma in the West: William Blake and the Oriental Renaissance (State University of New York Press, 2003), Decadent Culture in the United States: Art and Literature against the American Grain, 1890-1926, and American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011).

Reviews

[Sohail · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good and bad at the same time, this book is both insightful and fanatical. It provides a lot of incredibly detailed and well thought information about Joyce's novel, but the author's bigotry and fanboyism that make him worship Joyce as a god at the altar of Ulysses are the Achilles's heels that bring this edifice down.

[DeterminedStupor]

Have only read through the Introduction.