Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece

Declan Kiberd, a professor of Anglo-Irish literature at the University College Dublin, offers an audacious new take on Joyce's classic novel. Ulysses, he argues, is a work written for and about the common person, offering a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life in the modern world. In this passionate corrective to the widespread view of Ulysses as an esoteric tome for the scholarly few, Kiberd dispells the aura of academic mystique that has attached itself to the novel, opening our eyes to Ulysses as a celebration of the everyday and a model for living well in an unpredictable world.

Author: Declan Kiberd
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/01/2010
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.56w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780393339093

About the Author
Kiberd, Declan: - Declan Kiberd is a professor of Anglo-Irish literature at the University College Dublin and the author of Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation, which won the Irish Times Prize, and of Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece. He lives in Dublin.