James Joyce's Ulysses

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modernist novel novel

James Joyce's Ulysses is a landmark modernist novel that parallels a single day in Dublin with the epic structure of classical myth, renowned for its stream-of-consciousness style and linguistic experimentation.

Aliases (2)

Ulysses ×82
Ulysses episode "Proteus" ×1

Statements (77)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	modernist novel → novel →
author	James Joyce →
banLiftedInUnitedStates	1933 →
bannedIn	United Kingdom → United States →
BloomsdayObservedOn	16 June →
centralTheme	everyday life as epic → exile → father–son relationships → identity → language and representation → marriage and infidelity → memory → nationalism → religion → sexuality →
countryOfOrigin	Ireland →
courtCaseInUnitedStates	United States v. One Book Called Ulysses →
criticalReception	initially controversial → now widely acclaimed →
dayOfAction	Thursday →
editorOf1984Edition	Hans Walter Gabler →
episodeCount	18 →
famousLine	"yes I said yes I will Yes" →
famousSection	Molly Bloom's soliloquy →
firstCompleteEditionPlace	Paris →
firstCompleteEditionPublisher	Shakespeare and Company →
firstCompleteEditionYear	1922 →
firstSerialization	The Little Review →
genre	literary fiction →
hasAdaptation	film adaptations → radio adaptations → stage adaptations →
influenced	20th-century novel → postmodern literature →
influencedBy	Dublin city life → Homer's Odyssey →
legalHistory	subject of obscenity trials →
literaryMovement	Modernism →
literarySignificance	influential in stream-of-consciousness narrative → landmark of modernist literature →
mainCharacter	Leopold Bloom → Molly Bloom → Stephen Dedalus →
narrativeStructure	18 episodes →
narrativeTechnique	free indirect discourse → interior monologue → parody and pastiche → stream of consciousness →
notableCharacter	Blazes Boylan → Buck Mulligan → Gerty MacDowell → Haines → Simon Dedalus →
notableEdition	1922 first edition → 1934 Random House edition → 1984 Gabler critical edition →
notableFilmAdaptation	Ulysses (1967 film) →
originalLanguage	English →
placeOfSetting	Dublin →
protagonist	Leopold Bloom →
publicationStatus	first serialized →
publisherOfFirstEdition	Shakespeare and Company →
recognizedAs	one of the greatest novels of the 20th century →
serializationEndYear	1920 →
serializationStartYear	1918 →
setInCountry	Ireland →
settingDateName	Bloomsday →
settingPeriod	early 20th century →
structureParallels	Homer's Odyssey →
styleCharacteristic	extensive allusion → linguistic experimentation → mythic method → shifting narrative voices →
timeOfSetting	16 June 1904 →
timeSpanOfAction	one day →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Greco-Roman mythology ("Ulysses") →	hasHero
Lost Generation ("Ulysses") →	hasNotableWork
James Joyce ("Ulysses episode "Proteus"") →	hasPart
Homer's Odyssey →	influenced
Random House ("Ulysses") →	notablePublication
James Joyce ("Ulysses") →	notableWork
Odysseus ("Ulysses") →	romanName