Consider the view that the possible parallels between Ulysses and The Odyssey have only a limited application, and are at best a ludic addendum, at worst an irritating distraction. Homer's The Odyssey is considered to be the second work of Western literature, preceded only by his Illiad...

James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882 and died in Zurich in 1941 after one of the most controversial and luminous literary careers of the twentieth century. From his early work, the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the short stories collected in Dubliners, to ...

The realistic setting of the time and place in the three first paragraphs enables the reader to identify with the protagonist of the story, the young boy. In the opening of the story, James Joyce carefully described the protagonist's neighborhood and surroundings with the use of real names like "No...

The Controversy of Ulysses Being too realistic for the audience, the novel Ulysses by James Joyce was probably one of the most challenged novels of the 20th century. The Shakespeare and Company in Paris first published this novel in 1922. Entering the market of united states, Joyce faced ...