Synopses & Reviews
James Joyceandrsquo;s Ulysses first appeared in print in the pages of an American avant-garde magazine, The Little Review, between 1918 and 1920. The novel many consider to be the most important literary work of the twentieth century was, at the time, deemed obscene and scandalous, resulting in the eventual seizure of The Little Review and the placing of a legal ban on Joyceandrsquo;s masterwork that would not be lifted in the United States until 1933. For the first time, The Little Review andldquo;Ulyssesandrdquo; brings together the serial installments of Ulysses to create a new edition of the novel, enabling teachers, students, scholars, and general readers to see how one of the previous centuryandrsquo;s most daring and influential prose narratives evolved, and how it was initially introduced to an audience who recognized its radical potential to transform Western literature. This unique and essential publication also includes essays and illustrations designed to help readers understand the rich contexts in which Ulysses first appeared and trace the complex changes Joyce introduced after it was banned.
Review
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The Little Review andquot;Ulyssesandquot; recreates the astonishing experience of reading the
Ulysses installments before U.S. censors shut them down. Gaipa, Latham and Scholes are deft guides to a masterpiece in the making. Itandrsquo;s indispensable reading for any serious Joycean.andquot;andmdash;Kevin Birmingham, author of
The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyceandrsquo;s UlyssesReview
andldquo;This canny edition of Ulysses episodes from The Little Review throws revealing light on transatlantic modernism by tracing the intertwined histories of a seminal journal and Joyceandrsquo;s masterpiece. It reconstructs serial reading by embedding the early versions in their periodical and period contexts while sending us to the 1922 Ulysses with refreshed vision for those who already know it or with sharpened vision for first-time readers.andrdquo;andmdash;John Paul Riquelme, Boston University
Review
andquot;More than the shock of recognition, there is a jolt of pleasure, indistinguishable from wonder, in encountering
Ulysses as its first intrigued readers would have in the proudly modern pages of
The Little Review.andquot;andmdash;Maria DiBattista, Princeton University
Review
andldquo;At last, the very first published version of
Ulysses seen by readers, as it appeared in that courageous journal
The Little Review. Beautiful presented, its context clearly explained. This is a fascinating vision of the greatest twentieth-century novel in its first public appearance. The excitement radiates off every page. Here is a wondrous artworkandrsquo;s first outing, skillfully returned to the world.andrdquo; andmdash;Enda Duffy, University of California Santa Barbara
Review
andldquo;A beautifully edited volumeandnbsp;that allows contemporary readers to experienceandnbsp;
Ulyssesandnbsp;as it was first published in serialization, warts and all.andnbsp;The scholarship is meticulous, helpful, and unobtrusive.andrdquo; andmdash;Sam Slote, Trinity College Dublin
Review
andldquo;A treasure - theandnbsp;
Ulyssesandnbsp;that readers first saw and that a court banned,andnbsp;beautifully presented to help us encounter this work inandnbsp;progress as it unfoldedandnbsp;in theandnbsp;
Little Review.andrdquo; andmdash;Michael Groden, author of
andldquo;Ulyssesandrdquo; in Progress and
andldquo;Ulyssesandrdquo; in FocusSynopsis
"Accessible yet challenging, this book will be the indispensable introductory text for semiotics--indeed for any theoretical course in the humanities and social sciences that deals with the theory of these disciplines."--Choice
"The book offers . . . a clutch of examples of semiotics usefully and intelligently applied, which Schole's patient, cheerful tone and his resolutely concrete vocabulary manage to combine into a breezily informative American confection."--Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement
"This critique demonstrates once more that Scholes . . . is one of the most authoritative scholars in the field of semiotics."--The Antioch Review
" Scholes] applies the range of semiotic theory to a series of other texts--poems, stories, films, a scene from a play, bumper stickers, even a part of the human anatomy. . . . When we finish this text (which includes a useful glossary and descriptive bibliography), we feel that we have learned the basic principles of semiotics and can apply them in our teaching and criticism; as a bonus, we gain many new insights into familiar texts."--Richard Pearce, Novel
" Scholes] is among our best interpreters of literary theory. . . . He provides not only an argument for semiotics but an informed criticism of it as well."--Martin Green, The Literary Review
Synopsis
"The book offers . . . a clutch of examples of semiotics usefully and intelligently applied, which Scholes's patient, cheerful tone and his resolutely concrete vocabulary manage to combine into a breezily informative American confection."-Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement
Synopsis
This book is intended as a companion piece to my earlier study, Structuralism in Literature, but differs from its predecessor in a number of respects. The study of structuralism was primarily theoretical, and its individual chapters were mainly devoted to discussions of the contributions certain Continental writers had made to the development of structuralism as an intellectual position.
About the Author
Mark Gaipa is senior editor at the Modernist Journals Project.
Sean Latham is Walter Professor of English at the University of Tulsa and editor of the
James Joyce Quarterly.
Robert Scholes is emeritus professor at Brown University.