Ulysses

Joyce's modernist odyssey through Dublin on a single day, mapping every hour onto Homer's epic.

Specifications & Metrics

author

James Joyce

type

Modernist novel

era

High modernism (1922)

language

English (multi-register)

setting

Dublin, 16 June 1904

parts

18 episodes

Relative Scale in Novels

Core Principles & Analysis

• Published in Paris by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company in 1922.
• An American court lifted the book's US ban in 1933, opening its mass publication.
• Its final episode is Molly Bloom's eight-sentence unpunctuated monologue.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Ulysses (novel)