Ulysses Explained: How Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare Inform Joyce's Modernist Vision

by David Weir and David Weir

In 1929, T. S. Eliot claimed that "Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them; there is no third." Ulysses Explained argues that James Joyce may now be numbered along with Dante and Shakespeare among the giants of Western literature whose stature and status as an artist of the modern world has been confirmed by tradition. But there is another who walks beside them, closer to Dante and Joyce, certainly, though he occasionally brushes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137488409
• ISBN13: 9781137488404
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"