Sutherlin, Susan

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Butler University Digital Commons @ Butler University LAS Faculty Book Reviews College of Liberal Arts & Sciences 11-1-2009 Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece by Declan Kiberd, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009 Susan Sutherlin Butler University, ssutherl@butler.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/las_bookreviews Recommended Citation Sutherlin, Susan, "Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece by Declan Kiberd, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009" (2009). LAS Faculty Book Reviews. 36. https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/las_bookreviews/36 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Digital Commons @ Butler University. It has been accepted for inclusion in LAS Faculty Book Reviews by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Butler University. For more information, please contact digitalscholarship@butler.edu. Because Ideas Matter... The faculty and staff of Butler University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences presents Recommended Readings Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece by Declan Kiberd, W.W. Norton & Company, 2009 Reviewed by Susan Sutherlin   Let's face it-James Joyce is a nag. His best known work-you know the one-the 600-page modernist romp on everyone's must read/never finished list (even Hemingway's copy of Ulysses lies in the John F. Kennedy Library with pages uncut) is the subject of a startling refreshing companion volume, Ulysses and Us.  Professor Declan Kiberd, University College Dublin, provides an inspiring re-mix of how and why reading Ulysses will change your life, or at minimum rearrange your 'molecules.' This is likely the inoculation you'll need whether you are a first-time or returning traveler to turn-of-the century Dublin.  Kiberd's framework reawakens us to the movements of everyday life-eating, walking, drinking, thinking, and loving with Leopold, Molly, Stephen, and Blazes-and the practical magic that Joyce bestows as they mourn the dead, drink a cup of tea, fry the liver, conceal a rendezvous, or gently protect the university student who has lost his way home. The stream of consciousness which everyone experiences everyday has never seemed so accessible, wise, or instructive.  - Susan Sutherlin is an instructor in English at Butler University  

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