Gottfried, Roy K.
The Art of Joyce's Syntax in Ulysses.
The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1980. 0333306481 191 pages.
Volume is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is in excellent condition. Intact dust jacket displays light shelfwear.
"Asked by an artist friend whether his day-long struggle to write two sentences of "Ulysses" was due to his search for the mot juste, James Joyce replied, "No, I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. There is an order in every way appropriate. In the first book-length study of the syntax of "Ulysses", Roy K. Gottfried analyzes the appropriateness - the art- in the novel's rich variety of sentence patterns. Underlying the varieties of style that the reader encounters from chapter to chapter and even from character to character, there is, the author shows, a single unifying strategy. The syntax of "Ulysses" is shown to be a consistent manipulation of word-order, recognizable in a variety of different applications and ranging in intensity from rigid adherence to that order to nearly asyntactic freedom." (Dust jacket text)