Title: Joyce's Ulysses as national epic : epic mimesis and the political history of the nation state /
Authors: Ungar, Andras, 1947-
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Joyce, James,; Joyce, James,; Nationalism and literature Ireland History; Politics and literature Ireland History; National characteristics, Irish, in literature.; Epic literature History and criticism.; Fables History and criticism; Mimesis in literature; Ireland In literature.
Contents: Foreword / Zack Bowen -- Introduction: The Epic Fable: A Negotiation with History and Nationhood -- 1. The Argument of the Fable: An Overview -- 2. The Ascent of Stephen Dedalus from Messianic Ambition to Epic Discourse -- 3. Joyce and the Fate of Arthur Griffith's Resurrection of Hungary in Ulysses -- 4. Closure and Millicent Bloom -- 5. Epic Mimesis and the Syntax of Ulysses -- 6. Other Alternatives: Nationhood and Forgetfulness.