Joyce's Ulysses: A Reader's Guide

Ulysses remains less widely read than most texts boasting such a canonical status, largely due to misunderstanding about how to read it, and this guide provides an easy to follow remedy. By showing how Joyce reacted to the historical and cultural context in which he was situated, the radical nature of his use of language is laid bare in a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Ulysses. 

This approach enables the student reader to read and enjoy the novel's plurality of styles and to understand the terms of critical debate surrounding the nature and significance of Joyce's novel.

A student-friendly guide enabling the new reader of Ulysses to understand, analyse and appreciate the most famous, and famously 'difficult', novel of the twentieth century.

Seán Sheehan has taught in London and Singapore and is now a full-time writer. He has written a number of books including Joyce's 'Ulysses': A Reader's Guide (2009)
and Žižek: A Guide for the Perplexed (forthcoming).