A day in the life of Leopold Bloom wandering Dublin on 16 June 1904, retelling Homer's Odyssey through radically shifting modernist styles.
Books mentioned in Ulysses (30)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare: “in Much Ado about Nothing, twice in As you like It, in The Tempest, in Hamlet”
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare: “in Hamlet, in Measure for Measure and in all the other plays”
The Maid's Tragedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: “by those delicate poets Master John Fletcher and Master Francis Beaumont that is in their Maid's Tragedy”
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “a figure which the world will set beside Saxon Shakespeare's Hamlet”
King Lear by William Shakespeare: “when we read the poetry of King Lear what is it to us how the poet lived?”
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “Rip van Winkle, Kossuth, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “he had written Romeo and Juliet”
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare: “the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim”
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “found those six brave medicals to write Paradise Lost at your dictation?”
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin: “the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin, expounded in The Descent of Man”
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: “each his variorum edition of The Taming of the Shrew”
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins: “Miss Dunne hid the Capel street library copy of The Woman in White”
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving: “Rip van Winkle we played”
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare: “The lost armada is his jeer in Love's Labour Lost”
Poetical Works by Denis Florence MacCarthy: “Denis Florence M'Carthy's _Poetical Works_ (copper beechleaf bookmark at p.”
The Lamplighter by Maria S. Cummins: “that book The Lamplighter by Miss Cummins, author of Mabel Vaughan”
Enoch Arden by Alfred Tennyson: “Enoch Arden and Rip van Winkle”
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: “the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin, expounded in _The Descent of Man_ and _The Origin of Species_.”
Books that mention Ulysses (14)
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell: “Compare James Joyce: 'In the economy of heaven...glorified man, an androgynous angel, being a wife unto himself' (Ulysses, Modern Library edition).”
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell: “Then I recalled that in Ulysses, while Bloom is wandering about the streets of Dublin, a ball drops...”
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Queneau essay: named (candidate dictAuthor 'Tennyson' was wrong)”
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “Repeatedly invoked as the benchmark of great, 'static' literature during the trial testimony.”
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell: “Will I die without ever reading Ulysses to the end?”
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry: “Probably its most daring act was to publish several installments of James Joyce's Ulysses”
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari: “Some people believe that Joyce's Ulysses represents the apogee of this modern focus on the inner life...in 260,000 words Joyce describes a single day in the life of the Dubliners Stephen Dedalus”
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy: “Isaac's sentences purloined from Joyce's Ulysses – 'Bel-luomo rises from the bed of his wife's lover's wife, the kerchiefed housewife is astir' – streaked like comets across my reading sky.”
On James Baldwin by Colm Tóibín: “When Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses is asked what a nation is, he replies...”
On Literature by Umberto Eco: “discussed as based on Aristotle's Rhetoric and analyzed repeatedly”
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “In Tolstoy's War and Peace and James Joyce's Ulysses, two novels in which we quite often feel the presence of shared objective time”
Coventry by Rachel Cusk: “the same can be said of Joyce's Ulysses, with which The Rainbow was contemporaneous”
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver: “he knew the difference between Homer’s Ulysses and the one by James Joyce, and how to get down to business with a metaphor”