Reading Joyce’s Ulysses

In this study of Ulysses , the author presents a reading of Joyce’s epic novel and discusses it in terms of a dialogue between recent and more traditional literary theory. Focusing on what he calls the Odyssean reader , the author demonstrates how the experience of reading this novel involves responding both to traditional plot and character, and to the novel’s stylistic experiments. Schwartz shows how the novel creates a reader who must make deliberate discriminations in his examination of the novel. After three general chapters with addresses on how Joyce’s art signifies, Joyce’s concept of the hero and the role of the hero, Schwarz provides an episode-by-episode analysis.