Product Description: Applies chaos theory to James Joyce's Ulysses, & specifically to the course of Leopold Bloom's day, ultimately showing how and why chaos theory offers the best model yet for understanding daily human life and a fresh, humanistic understanding of Joyce. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description:  James Joyce used music and musical allusion in ways that no other writer has attempted. Ulysses alone contains more than 800 song references, many as dependent upon music as lyrics. In these retrospective essays, Zack Bowen, the leading expert on Joyce and music, describes this bond between music and Joyce's fiction, explaining how musical allusions inform both individual passages and the theme or structure of entire works...read more

Product Description: Book by Bowen, Zack

Product Description: Mr. Bowen’s aim is to place in perspective the enormous range of Colum’s work, as has not been done before, and to assess critically its literary and historical position. Drawing upon his intimate knowledge of Colum’s writings, Bowen rates Colum’s plays as something less than the masterpieces they were thought to be, and he gives a valuable reading of Colum’s novels and especially useful categorization and evaluation of Colum’s children’s literature...read more