First Reactions to Joyce's Masterpiece
by
Nola Tully
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
The publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses was met with both hyperbolic praise and scorn: was Joyce’s evocation of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom’s Dublin a work of genius? Or was it drivel? Was it “an entirely new thing” (W. B. Yeats), or “a turgid welter of pornography” (Edith...