Joyce's "Ulysses" for Everyone: Plotting the Narrative (Irish Research Series) - Softcover

Dr John Mood (Ph.D Drew university and former full professor of English) explains Irish author James Joyce's (1882-1941) famously complex and powerful novel. Mood believes that Ulysses is accessible to the ordinary reader who focuses on the meta narrative (and perseveres) . The author discusses names of the chapters, plot structure and narrative style, plots, the cast of characters, recurring words and phrases, and the secondary literature with two sample interpretations of key elements. --Book News Inc.

I certainly enjoyed your Joycean excursion, particularly the part about Joyce's interweaving of various narrative voices --Tom Wolfe, best selling essayist & novelist

Mood's commentary combines a fine alertness to the nuances of Joyce's words with a sure understanding of the wider social and cultural world out of which the great work sprang. --Professor Declan Kiberd, Keough Professor of Irish Studies, Notre Dame University

Dr. Mood's study returns Joyce's masterwork to the reader (and to accessibility) by a coupling of essential narrative themes that are humorous, sexy and suspenseful developments and a plot cycle that speaks to James Joyce's abiding fascination with femininity, gender, Irish politics and the social relevance of national literature and the world of the novel. Mood re connects Joyce's use of first appearance and first occurrence to its Shakespearean origin and purpose.