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Ulysses in Focus: Genetic, Textual, and Personal Views

Ulysses in Focus: Genetic, Textual, and Personal Views

Groden, Michael

Paperback

Series: Florida James Joyce

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0813041724
ISBN13: 9780813041728
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: Apr 15 2012
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What if you had never opened the book of your life? Or if that book had been even a little different? Ulysses in Focus takes up these vertiginous questions, raveling out episodes in the writing, critical reception, and editing of Joyce's masterpiece and twining them together with stories from a life spent elucidating it. Joyce himself would have admired the variety that Michael Groden offers us here: fascinating new readings of Ulysses by its foremost genetic critic; behind-the-scenes accounts of editorial contretemps and secret manuscript acquisitions; the sorrow of shelved projects and the thrill of the bibliographic quest. At its core, Ulysses in Focus tells the story of a reader and a book that seem to have been destined for one another. Yet its method is against destiny, seeking to free texts from the published state in which they ossify by restoring to us a sense of their evolution and their contingency. To read Groden is to think differently about reading and being: to suspect that a book, like a life, might be the sum of its untaken roads.--Paul K. Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania

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