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	Novel - MSN Encarta
		For example, writers can produce novels that have the tension of a drama, the scope of an epic poem, the type of commentary found in an essay, and the imagery and rhythm of a lyric poem.
		Like the people in the Bible, the novel’s characters may search for God and have their own particular dreams and ideals, but unlike many biblical characters, the characters in novels are generally presented as people without spiritual missions and destinies.
		In Ulysses (1922) by Irish writer James Joyce, the experiences of the character Leopold Bloom have some similarity to those of the hero Odysseus in the Odyssey by ancient Greek poet Homer.
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	Ulysses ( James Joyce)
		Ulysses is a 1922 novel by James Joyce that takes its title from the Latin version of the Greek name 'Odysseus'.
		Ulysses is a massive novel: 267,000 words in total from a vocabulary of 30,000 words, with most editions weighing in at between 800 to 1000 pages, and divided into 18 chapters.
		The legacy and impact of Ulysses on modern literature and literary culture is sizable; one need only note the proliferation of the celebration of Bloomsday on 16 June all over the world, with a notably large celebration in Dublin, Ireland during 2004 to commemorate the centenary of the book's events.
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		Ulysses wanted to hear their song and, on Circe's advice, stopped the ears of his crew with wax and had himself lashed to the mast of his ship, bidding them to pay no heed to whatever he said as the ship drew near the Sirens' island.
		Ulysses appears all the more impressive for the way his response to the song of Sirens allows him and the sailors he commands to regain a mastery that was challenged or had been lost: the mastery over song itself.
		Ulysses is not free of the Sirens; his technical mastery does not prevent them from enticing him into the other voyage which is, he explains, the voyage of the récit--of a song that has been recounted and, for this reason, is made to seem harmless, "an ode which has turned into an episode" ("Sirens'" 445).
	www.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.502/12.3iyer.txt (8833 words)

	Ulysses - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ulysses (spacecraft), name of an interplanetary spacecraft and its mission to measure the solar wind and magnetic field over the Sun’s poles during...
		Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by...
		Ulysses, the Latin equivalent of the Greek Odysseus, was the king of Ithaca, a Greek island.
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	RTÉ.ie RTÉ Radio 1 "Reading Ulysses"
		Ulysses was reluctant to go to war, he was concerned about his son, he was a master tactician, he had many wiles, he was a wanderer, he was fond of music: all traits that Joyce's "Ulysses", Leopold Bloom, will echo.
		Ulysses, he said, "is the epic of two races (Israel-Ireland) and at the same time the cycle of the human body as well as a little story of a day (life)..
		Ulysses is then a complete prose epic; to regard it merely as a novel is too limiting.
	www.rte.ie /readingulysses/essay.html (1482 words)

	CNN - Again, "Ulysses" voted novel for millennium - January 19, 1999
		The Irish novel received the accolade as the book whose reputation was most likely to survive the millennium.
		"'Ulysses' is the novel that many believe will stand the test of time and keep its place in the literary canon for the next hundred years," literary expert John Sutherland said.
		'Ulysses' is the biggest pile of gobbledygook ever perpetrated on the reading public.
	www.cnn.com /books/news/9901/19/ulysses/index.html (584 words)

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		The novel was written over the span of several years, during which Joyce continued to live in self-imposed exile from his native Ireland.
		Ulysses, the Latin equivalent of the Greek Odysseus, was the king of Ithaca, a Greek island.
		Ulysses himself was throughout his life a quiet man, calm during crises, with a manner of unbuttoned informality.
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	Ulysses
		A revised edition of the novel was published in 1984, and the more than five thousand errors occurring in the book have been corrected--errors caused by Joyce's friends, who took many liberties in typing the final manuscript, and by French typesetters who did not understand English.
		Ulysses, we have seen, is certainly not completely devoid of the qualities of love, friendship, and magnanimity, virtues some Joyceans find that the novel totally lacks.
		Continuing a tradition that we have seen in all the writers examined in these essays, Joyce celebrates the creativity of the family, the joys and sorrows of life, the at-one-ment of author and reader through the shared imaginative re-creation afforded by great literature, and the courage and dignity of which the human spirit is capable.
	www.octc.kctcs.edu /crunyon/CE/Joyce/ulysses.htm (5077 words)

	Blanchot, Narration, and the Event
		Ulysses wanted to hear their song and, on Circe's advice, stopped the ears of his crew with wax and had himself lashed to the mast of his ship, bidding them to pay no heed to whatever he said as the ship drew near the Sirens' island.
		Ulysses appears all the more impressive for the way his response to the song of Sirens allows him and the sailors he commands to regain a mastery that was challenged or had been lost: the mastery over song itself.
		Ulysses is not free of the Sirens; his technical mastery does not prevent them from enticing him into the other voyage which is, he explains, the voyage of the récit--of a song that has been recounted and, for this reason, is made to seem harmless, "an ode which has turned into an episode" ("Sirens'" 445).
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	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Cheat's guide to Joyce's Ulysses
		Ulysses is the greatest novel of the twentieth century.
		Ulysses remains one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read, but the key to enjoying it is to not try to understand it.
		Ulysses looks really daunting, but it's really fun to read, plus, since the plot is not hugely important, you can read the chapters in any order and you never really have to finish it if you don't want to.
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	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Ulysses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ulysses, a Modernist reconstruction of Homer's epic The Odyssey, was James Joyce's first epic-length novel.
		The novel was written over the span of several years, during which Joyce continued to live in self-imposed exile from his native Ireland.
		The patriots and zealots of Ulysses are invariably buffoons or villains.
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	Joyce’s Ulysses
		Illuminating the dramatic and artistic integrity behind the novel's most notoriously challenging passages, he explains why this frank, pathbreaking novel was praised as a landmark and damned as obscene—even banned—as soon as it first appeared.
		You learn that Ulysses is the work of a man steeped in Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and all of Western literature, but at the same time totally aware of his place in time and determined to catch all its many turnings in every possible way his art can master.
		You explore how radically Ulysses departs from earlier models, how Joyce fundamentally reconstructs the relation between time and place in narrative, and how he explodes the assumption that a work of fiction must be dominated by a consistent point of view.
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	Daedalus and Odysseus: Two Mythic Heroes Influencing Fatherhood as Represented in James Joyce’s Ulysses
		In his essay “Ulysses, Order, and Myth” T.S. Eliot explains that the role Odysseus plays in the novel is structural and praises Joyce for being the first to use that sort of structure for the modern novel.
		The novel deviates from the myth because unlike Icarus, Stephen, in the role of a son, does not die.
		Ulysses is lost because he angered a goddess on the way home from a war.
	www.julielorenzen.net /joyce.html (6541 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		Here indeed is the peril Ulysses poses to the social compact written into the history of the novel: the individuality privileged by the middle- or upper-middle-class situation of many early readers in the genre (reading, unlike speaking or listening, is solitary) suffers its demise from this point in Ulysses.
		It is a testament equally to the influence of Ulysses and Woolf's own intellectual complexity that she tries to write a novel in the manner of the one she has just condemned.
		But her novel is perhaps most interesting (in this critical context) in the way it fails to present an experience manifestly at odds with the social conventions and mental demeanor of its namesake heroine, and controlling consciousness.
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	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
		Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce which takes its title from the Latin version of the Greek name 'Odysseus'.
		It is sometimes cited as the greatest novel of the 20th century and has been the subject of much scrutiny, criticism and confusion.
		Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin of Leopold Bloom during an unremarkable day, June 16, 1904.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /Ulysses (2544 words)

	Ulysses
		When James Joyce created his novel, "Ulysses", he is said to have written the best novel of the twentieth century.
		This fourth in a series studying the novel Ulysses, begins a study of the first chapter.
		As can be seen in the previous four articles, James Joyce took the novel to new heights, and carried the mind of the reader to places where he or she had never been taken before, by re-telling an old story in a new place and time.
	www.suite101.com /reference/ulysses (1466 words)

	James Joyce's Ulysses \| Songs, Music, and Musical Allusions
		Ulysses not only contains a far greater number of musical allusions than any of its predecessors, but also illustrates the far more varied use Joyce made of music to develop the style, characterization, mood, structure, and themes of his novel.
		We come to know the characters in the book by their actions, words, thoughts, and memories; but it can be well argued that we come to understand them by their individual tastes in music and the melodies that flit through their minds in the course of the day.
		Bloom learns that the song will be included in the concert tour early in the morning, and it serves throughout his day and the novel Ulysses both as a leitmotif of Molly's adultery and as the theme song of her potential reconciliation with Bloom.
	www.james-joyce-music.com /ulysses.html (1032 words)

	Ulysses by James Joyce. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
		Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?.
		William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand.
		A standard dictionary doesn't have one tenth the words that are used at the beginning of this novel.
	www.online-literature.com /james_joyce/ulysses (1436 words)

	Joyce - Papers: Pierre Menard, Author of Ulysses
		And that Ulysses, a modernization of a classic, may be open to reinterpretation in its turn as a "classic," not in the limited sense of a canonical text frequently taught and read, but in the deadened sense of a work no longer alive, still difficult but no longer fresh.
		In this sense Ulysses is also an historical novel, not necessarily simply in the postcolonial sense discussed by Enda Duffy and others, but in the nineteenth century tradition of Scott or even George Eliot, writing about the world twenty to fifty years before the author's time, delving into the past to reclaim the present.
		And this is not to claim that the Ulysses we read now is any less experimental, any less unique, any less culturally or aesthetically challenging than it has always been recognized to be, only to say that it shows its investment in the world Joyce grew up in more clearly for the passage of time.
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	Joyce - Works: Ulysses
		Published in 1922, Ulysses is a remarkably ambitious novel, a labyrinthine work of great humor and technical accomplishment; once denounced as obscene, occasionally accused of being unreadable, and frequently acclaimed as the greatest book of the twentieth century.
		Ulysses is never cruel, mean-spirited, or even sardonic: paradoxically, Joyce brings out the nobility of his characters through their very failure to measure up to heroic proportions.
		Ulysses is famous for many things, from its complex structural tropes to its avowed difficulty, from its brilliantly realized characters to its notorious obscenities;”; but what really marks it as the twentieth-century classic is its revolutionary prose, a combination a stream-of-consciousness immediacy and protean flexibility.
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	A Rock n' Roll 'Ulysses' (1999)
		Ulysses inconveniently fits into both of these categories, with its NeoHomeric narrative and its continued references to street songs and the trashy novels of Charles Paul de Kock.
		The second half of the novel is best described by Brian McHale as a "parallax of discourses." In this half of the book, the action of the novel is shaped more by the discourse employed by Joyce than by the actual events in the narrative.
		The modernist first half of the novel expands on the narrative tradition of the novel with its representation of the consciousness (of Dedalus and Bloom).
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	The Modern Novel I
		The novel, once the ideal “formless” form for capturing impressions of a world built on apparently stable foundations (captured by the exquisite prose of e.g., Henry James), looks to 1) symbolist principles and 2) modernised mythologies, i.e., an intensified aesthetic, to capture the shifting and fundamentally symbolic nature of human experience.
		The Second Coming” charts the fizzling out of 2000 years of Christianity and hints at the coming new millennial shift that is projected to emerge out of the chaos and anarchy of the present.
		Ulysses a “novel”; and if you call it an epic it will not matter.
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	NovelGuide: Ulysses: Novel Summary: Chapter One - Episode 1
		This first episode of Ulysses demonstrates the typical qualities of a modernist text in that the readers are offered no introductions or exposition of the characters or place.
		Mulligan and Haines are of less importance, but their interactions with Stephen at this early juncture are noteworthy for the readers as they allow us to glimpse Stephen's preoccupation and guilt concerning the death of his mother, and his fair-mindedness compared to the other two men.
		This also ties in with the title of this episode, Telemachus, as Telemachus is the son of Odysseus (this is Ulysses, who is re-worked as Bloom here) of The Odyssey on which this novel is loosely based.
	www.novelguide.com /Ulysses/novelsummary.html (769 words)

	SparkNotes: Ulysses: Themes, Motifs & Symbols
		Ulysses juxtaposes characters who experience remorse with characters who do not, such as Buck Mulligan, who shamelessly refers to Stephen’s mother as “beastly dead,” and Simon Dedalus, who mourns his late wife but does not regret his treatment of her.
		Bloom’s compassion often dictates the course of his day and the novel, as when he stops at the river Liffey to feed the gulls or at the hospital to check on Mrs.
		There is a network of symbols in Ulysses that present Bloom as Ireland’s savior, and his message is, at a basic level, to “love.” He is juxtaposed with Stephen, who would also be Ireland’s savior but is lacking in compassion.
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	Books of The Times; How in the World 'Ulysses' Got So Mixed Up - New York Times
		Arnold most is that "Ulysses" has "always been a source of scandal." He points out that it is "an obscene book" (though not pornographic) and "very dirty." He reminds us that it was banned in the United States and Britain soon after Joyce completed it in November 1921.
		Instead, from the moment its first fragments appeared, the novel attracted an ever-expanding body of commentary that over the decades has evolved from the highly opinionated reaction of Joyce's fellow writers to a veritable industry of formal scholarship that no longer even questions the merits of "Ulysses" as a work of art.
		Arnold concludes that by judging all drafts of the novel to be of equal value regardless of when or under what circumstances they were written, Mr.
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