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Ulysses depicts a world that is really as totally conceived and lively as anything in Homer or Shakespeare. It has been delighting and puzzling readers since it was first printed on Joyce's 40th birthday in 1922. And here, Professor Heffernan maps the brilliance, interest, humanity, and laughter of Joyce's modern Odyssey in these 24 lectures that finally make a beguiling literary masterpiece accessible for any reader willing to provide it the opportunity. Although they discuss picked tips from the enormous body of critical scholarship on Ulysses, these lectures presuppose no special understanding of books or of James Joyce. Whether or not you've read Ulysses, you will discover they make an outstanding guide to the many-layered pleasures of this modern epic. Illuminating the dramatic and artistic integrity behind the novel's most notoriously challenging passages, they describe why this frank, path-breaking book was praised as a landmark and damned as obscene - even banned - when it first came out. You'll come to see Ulysses as many books at once: an motivated modern reweaving of the fabric of Homer's mighty Odyssey; a supreme synthesis of realism and symbolism; a grandly comic and sometimes bawdy work - a seriocomic parable about art and experience; a symphonic, kaleidoscopic portrayal of the places, noises, and voices of Dublin and every city; and a dazzling work of masterfully managed prose styles and narrative devices. Above all, you'll figure out how to read Ulysses as an unsentimental but deeply felt story that uses concrete facts of mundane life in a specific time and location to say something truly amazing and widespread that speaks to all or any that is human being in us.
