Reality and Motion in James Joyce's "Ulysses" Book Review by Jay Writtings LLC

In this paper, the reviewer explores several literary critics' opinions about the major themes in James Joyce's novel "Ulysses. Richard Ellmann sees the major theme in the novel as love, and his writings are examined at length. Other critics' views of Joyce's masterpiece, its central themes, and Ellmann's viewpoint are also cited. The reviewer describes "Ulysses" as having three central concepts, around which the techniques and themes of the novel revolve. "Ulysses" is further described as involving meta-literary processes, i.e., the author's attempt to influence the act of reading itself. The reviewer imparts that a comprehensive reading of Ulysses cannot stop with the text itself but must includ extra-textual considerations of Joyce's Dublin in 1904. The paper concludes by stating that "Ulysses" as an attempt to bring scholars and readers together, in a quest to understand the work, and calls for them to themselves traverse Joyce's Dublin.