Joyce told Frank Budgen that he considered Ulysses the only all-round character in literature. He thought about calling his short-story collection Dubliners Ulysses in Dublin, but the idea grew from a story written in 1906, to a “short book” in 1907, to the vast novel he began in 1914.

“Ulysses” is the Latin name for the Greek hero of Homer’s epic, the Odyssey, on which Joyce’s novel is based. By titling his novel, Ulysses, Joyce was harkening back to the start of literature and staking his place in it. But he was also challenging Homer.

“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.” ― James Joyce, Dubliners.

How to cite “Ulysses” by James Joyce

1. APA. Joyce, J. (2010). Ulysses. Wordsworth Editions.
2. Chicago. Joyce, James. 2010. Ulysses. Wordsworth Classics. Ware, England: Wordsworth Editions.
3. MLA. Joyce, James. Ulysses. Wordsworth Editions, 2010.

“Ulysses,” Slote admits, is a very intricate book on one level: “The profusion of styles and the quantity of allusions to Dublin street topography, Irish history, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Dante, and 19th-century popular music makes it seem somewhat inaccessible to many readers,” he says.

Ulysses is rightly regarded as a masterpiece. The intellect required to devise such characters, and also to convey their every thought, is phenomenal.

The writing and publication history of Ulysses was shaped by individuals and organisations trying to censor it, outraged by its explicit references to the human body and its iconoclasm.

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In what way does the following line from James Joyce’s “Araby” contribute to the symbolism of the story? She was waiting for us, her figure defined by the light from the half-opened door. Mangan’s sister is associated with light in the story’s imagery because she is part of the narrator’s hopes for a greater life.

Of course, Eugenides is also echoing the end of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” whose last extraordinary sentence is about 4,000 words long and ends with Molly Bloom’s boundless enthusiasm: “yes I said yes I will Yes.”

Considered by many to be the second hardest book in the English language (mostly because the hardest book in the English language requires a working knowledge of 8 other languages to read), reading Ulysses is both enjoyable and provocative. Despite its reputation, it’s not too difficult to read.

“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.” “Love loves to love love. Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly. Gerty MacDowell loves the boy that has the bicycle. M. B. loves a fair gentlema. Li Chi Han lovey up kissy Cha Pu Chow. Jumbo, the elephant, loves Alice, the elephant.

We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.” Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said to me: “I am not long for this world,” and I had thought his words idle. Now I knew they were true.

The novel tells the story of Leopold Bloom throughout one day as he walks through the streets of Dublin. He, as well as the characters he’s connected to, represents one of the characters in the Ancient Greek epic, so you can also find characters that parallel with Telemachus and Penelope (Odysseus son and wife).