James Joyce's Ulysses

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James Joyce's Ulysses is a landmark modernist novel that parallels a single day in Dublin with the epic structure of classical myth, renowned for its stream-of-consciousness style and linguistic experimentation.

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instanceOf modernist novel
novel
author James Joyce
banLiftedInUnitedStates 1933
bannedIn United Kingdom
United States
BloomsdayObservedOn 16 June
centralTheme everyday life as epic
exile
father–son relationships
identity
language and representation
marriage and infidelity
memory
nationalism
religion
sexuality
countryOfOrigin Ireland
courtCaseInUnitedStates United States v. One Book Called Ulysses
criticalReception initially controversial
now widely acclaimed
dayOfAction Thursday
editorOf1984Edition Hans Walter Gabler
episodeCount 18
famousLine "yes I said yes I will Yes"
famousSection Molly Bloom's soliloquy
firstCompleteEditionPlace Paris
firstCompleteEditionPublisher Shakespeare and Company
firstCompleteEditionYear 1922
firstSerialization The Little Review
genre literary fiction
hasAdaptation film adaptations
radio adaptations
stage adaptations
influenced 20th-century novel
postmodern literature
influencedBy Dublin city life
Homer's Odyssey
legalHistory subject of obscenity trials
literaryMovement Modernism
literarySignificance influential in stream-of-consciousness narrative
landmark of modernist literature
mainCharacter Leopold Bloom
Molly Bloom
Stephen Dedalus
narrativeStructure 18 episodes
narrativeTechnique free indirect discourse
interior monologue
parody and pastiche
stream of consciousness
notableCharacter Blazes Boylan
Buck Mulligan
Gerty MacDowell
Haines
Simon Dedalus
notableEdition 1922 first edition
1934 Random House edition
1984 Gabler critical edition
notableFilmAdaptation Ulysses (1967 film)
originalLanguage English
placeOfSetting Dublin
protagonist Leopold Bloom
publicationStatus first serialized
publisherOfFirstEdition Shakespeare and Company
recognizedAs one of the greatest novels of the 20th century
serializationEndYear 1920
serializationStartYear 1918
setInCountry Ireland
settingDateName Bloomsday
settingPeriod early 20th century
structureParallels Homer's Odyssey
styleCharacteristic extensive allusion
linguistic experimentation
mythic method
shifting narrative voices
timeOfSetting 16 June 1904
timeSpanOfAction one day

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Homer's Odyssey influenced James Joyce's Ulysses
Random House notablePublication Ulysses
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Lost Generation hasNotableWork Ulysses
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Odysseus romanName Ulysses
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James Joyce notableWork Ulysses
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James Joyce hasPart Ulysses episode "Proteus"
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Greco-Roman mythology hasHero Ulysses
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United States v. One Book Called Ulysses defendant One Book Called Ulysses
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United States v. One Book Called Ulysses relatedWork Ulysses by James Joyce
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Bloomsday commemorates James Joyce’s novel Ulysses
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Hans Walter Gabler hasWrittenOn James Joyce’s works
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