{"product_id":"the-dublin-helix-sebastian-d-g-knowles-9780813081908","title":"The Dublin Helix: The Life of Language in Joyce's Ulysses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading James Joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e through the lens of puzzles and language play\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmbracing improbable and wildly anachronistic connections, Sebastian Knowles has devised an approach to reading Ulysses that makes its author less of a modernist and more of a prophet of contemporary science, literature, and critical thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dublin Helix\u003c\/i\u003e is a puzzle book, taking as its method James Joyce's own playful manipulations of language and matching them with entertaining word searches, acrostics, and other enigmas. Knowles finds ways into \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e that have never before been imagined, from Mary Shelley's \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e to the structure for genetic material. Each chapter presents a puzzle, and each solution completes a little more of the picture of the vital language of the modern classic. By the end, the strange and wonderful text that is Joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e may be finally pieced together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth entertainment and scholarship, the book presents Joyce scholars with much that is new, a great deal that is controversial, and an unusual willingness to allow for misreadings and bogus statements. With appendixes that can make inviting handouts (originally developed for Knowles's own students), the book also offers an excellent introduction to a \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e course.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sebastian D. G. Knowles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813081904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813081908\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Sebastian D. G. Knowles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001627091199,"sku":"9780813081908","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dublin-helix-sebastian-d-g-knowles-9780813081908","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}