Spring Break
The Daily OrangeThe Daily Orange reviews the required reading for the spring semester
Abstract:
Hardest Book You'll Ever Read (Old School edition)
James Joyce's "Ulysses" (ETS 320)
I can't even begin to explain this book. Supposedly, it's (loosely) based off of "The Odyssey." And that's as far as I can go to summing up the plot. Though those who survive the novel do enjoy it....
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Catherine Burke-Plumadore
posted 1/16/08 @ 12:24 PM EST
Shakespeare writes in Modern English. It is not Old English (see "Beowulf") or even Middle English (see "Piers Plowman"). His style and the slang he uses aren't always familiar to us, but it's not a different level of development of the English language.