Werner Schmidt - James Joyce und die Farben des Ulysses

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This imposing volume is the fruit of the artist Werner Schmidts decades-long immersion in the preeminent literary monument of the twentieth century: James Joyces Ulysses. What began as a personal readers voyage now attains definite form in an eloquently colorful, interdisciplinary and polyphonic tributea work between literary study, theory of color, visual art, and reflection on language. In the books first part, Schmidt analyzes and visualizes the use of colors in Ulysses in unique chromatic diagrams and coded color stripes that were literally painted on the walls in exhibitions. They are complemented by a series of photographs taken in Dublin, the novels setting, and accompanied by probing meditations on literary and linguistic facets and aspects of politics and the history of religion in the Joycean universe. The second part gathers the voices of twenty renowned Joyce scholars, who, in five thematically organized chapters, share their perspectives on the color, texture, structure, and effect of Ulysses. A feast for all who revere Joyceand a gift of anyone who would not just read but truly wrap their mind around literature in its boldest and most luminous incarnation.

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