Timeless Joyce: A Hundred Years of Ulysses

In Timeless Joyce, Asun López-Varela provides a comprehensive, dense, and substantial approach to the study of Ulysses in celebration of its publication centenary. The author tackles multiple perspectives that revolve around key aspects of Joyce's narrative by structuring her account around the spiral figure, allowing for detailed thematic studies and frequent returns to the main research lines. The book revisits myth cells with a perceptive method that appreciates the transcendental without forgetting the language puns, metaphysical substratum, and Joycean ironic groundwork. The volume deserves attention for its accumulation of new analytical threads and the inspiring spiral framework that shows Joyce's ironic response to the grandiloquent inflation of epic. It explores the ambiguities present in Joyce's mythical method, where spatial and temporal restrictions are parodied and given transcendental scope. The book celebrates the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and explores the aspects that make his masterpiece timeless. Structured under the inspiration of Brancusi's spiral image, it shows Joyce's play in two movements: a centripetal move towards unity using myth, analogies, and correspondences, and a centrifugal force with a cunning mixture of irony and unanticipated turns. The double spiral movement contrasts diverse perspectives on existential issues, religious, political, and gender aspects. Readers are involved in a rite of passage, forced to read forwards, backwards, and vertically in the fractal structure of the novel, achieving Joyce's poetics of infinity.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 252 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2023
Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

distinctive use of irony,which leads to the fragmentation of the text. The author offers a comprehensive analysis of the novel,from the mythical and symbolic aspects to the linguistic and stylistic devices that make it unique. The book also includes a detailed bibliography of primary and secondary sources,making it an essential tool for scholars and students of Joyce.

In her comprehensive and substantial approach to the study of James Joyce's Ulysses, Asun López-Varela offers a holistic and dense exploration of the novel in commemoration of its publication centenary. By structuring her account around the spiral figure, the author successfully tackles multiple perspectives that revolve around key aspects of Joyce's narrative. This brilliant design enables the inclusion of detailed thematic studies, as well as the frequent return to the main research lines proposed, in an easy, smooth, and natural way.

One particularly relevant aspect of the book is the revisitation of myth cells, approached with a perceptive method that allows for transcendental appreciation while simultaneously acknowledging the language puns, metaphysical substratum, and Joycean ironic groundwork. López-Varela's analysis demonstrates the ambiguities present in Joyce's mythical method, where the spatial and temporal restrictions of everyday life are parodied and given transcendental scope.

The volume deserves attention not only for the accumulation of new analytical threads but also for the inspiring spiral framework that shows Joyce's ironic deflective response to the grandiloquent inflation of epic, traditionally performed by myth. The author superbly demonstrates the ambiguities present in Joyce's mythical method, where the spatial and temporal restrictions proper of the vicissitudes of everyday life are simultaneously parodied and given transcendental scope.

In conclusion, Asun López-Varela's volume is a valuable contribution to the study of James Joyce's Ulysses. Through its holistic and dense approach, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the novel, exploring its mythical and symbolic aspects, linguistic and stylistic devices, and the complex interplay of centripetal and centrifugal forces. It serves as a celebration of Joyce's text and its enduring relevance, providing scholars and students with a valuable resource for further exploration and understanding.

Weight: 384g
Dimension: 155 x 230 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800799974
Edition number: New ed