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To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most
important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists,
writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great
modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects
treated in the novel, but what brings them together is a common
love of Ulysses. Joseph O'Connor considers the music-saturated
Sirens episode and David McWilliams writes about the bigotry and
violence of nationalism on display in Cyclops. Irish obstetrician
Rhona Mahony responds to Oxen and the Sun, set in a maternity
hospital, journalist Lara Marlowe examines the Aeolus episode,
which takes place in a newspaper office, and Irish philosopher
Richard Kearney reflects on the erudite musings of Stephen Dedalus
as he walks along Sandymount strand. The Book About Everything
counters the perception of Ulysses as the sole preserve of
academics and instead showcases readers' responses to the book. It
is a vivid, even eccentric collection, filled with life and Joycean
spirit.
To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most
important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists,
writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great
modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects
treated in the novel, but what brings them together is a common
love of Ulysses. Joseph O'Connor considers the music-saturated
Sirens episode and David McWilliams writes about the bigotry and
violence of nationalism on display in Cyclops. Irish obstetrician
Rhona Mahony responds to Oxen and the Sun, set in a maternity
hospital, journalist Lara Marlowe examines the Aeolus episode,
which takes place in a newspaper office, and Irish philosopher
Richard Kearney reflects on the erudite musings of Stephen Dedalus
as he walks along Sandymount strand. The Book About Everything
counters the perception of Ulysses as the sole preserve of
academics and instead showcases readers' responses to the book. It
is a vivid, even eccentric collection, filled with life and Joycean
spirit.
If reading is inevitably always an experiment, reading literary
masterpieces gains one access to a linguistic and semiotic universe
that baffles hermeneutic authority, as well as any attempt to
propose definitive interpretations. What is good about reading is
that it is simultaneously a statement of subjectivity and
recognition of the other as a different interpreter of the same
signs. Every reading is therefore always provisional. Working on
Texts provides some old and new readings of famous literary
masterpieces by authors such as John Donne, S.T. Coleridge, Walt
Whitman, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Seamus Heaney.
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