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57. Ulysses.
—Mr Brandes accepts it, Stephen said, as the first play of the closing
period.
—Does he? What does Mr Sidney Lee, or Mr Simon Lazarus as some aver his name
is, say of it?
—Marina, Stephen said, a child of storm, Miranda, a wonder, Perdita, that
which was lost. What was lost is given back to him: his daughter’s child. My
dearest wife, Pericles says, was like this maid. Will any man love the
daughter if he has not loved the mother?
—The art of being a grandfather, Mr Best gan murmur. L’art d’être grand...
—Will he not see reborn in her, with the memory of his own youth added,
another image?
Do you know what you are talking about? Love, yes. Word known to all men._
James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is sometimes considered the greatest novel of
all time, and sometimes considered an impenetrable brick of a book. In
celebration of its centenary and on the anniversary of the day the book is set
(Bloomsday!) Chris and Suzanne trace the paths of its characters through the
streets of Dublin, revel in its sensuous writing, and consider what approaches
to reading the book encourages.
Show Notes.
James Joyce: Ulysses.
[Bookshop. Project
Gutenberg.]
Also by Joyce: Chamber Music.
Dubliners. A Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man. Finnegans
Wake.
We refer to several books we’ve discussed in previous episodes: The
Odyssey; Mrs.
Dalloway; The Divine
Comedy;
Middlemarch; A Moveable
Feast;
W; I Am
Woman.
Don Gifford: Ulysses Annotated.
Harry Blamires: The New Bloomsday Book.
Patrick Hastings: Ulyssesguide.com and The Guide
to James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The Joyce Project offers a heavily annotated
copy of the text.
An overview of the censoring of Ulysses in the
US.
An image of the edition with giant
letters.
A lecture by Johnna Purchase on graphic design and
Ulysses.
Écriture
feminine.
James Heffernen on Woolf’s reading of
Joyce.
The pharmacy mentioned in Ulysses.
Tracing Stephen Dedalus's gay desires.
Kate Bush is having a moment right now, so let’s add her adaptation of Molly’s
speech, The Sensual World.
Next: Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man.
[Bookshop.]
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon.
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—Mr Brandes accepts it, Stephen said, as the first play of the closing
period.
—Does he? What does Mr Sidney Lee, or Mr Simon Lazarus as some aver his name
is, say of it?
—Marina, Stephen said, a child of storm, Miranda, a wonder, Perdita, that
which was lost. What was lost is given back to him: his daughter’s child. My
dearest wife, Pericles says, was like this maid. Will any man love the
daughter if he has not loved the mother?
—The art of being a grandfather, Mr Best gan murmur. L’art d’être grand...
—Will he not see reborn in her, with the memory of his own youth added,
another image?
Do you know what you are talking about? Love, yes. Word known to all men._
James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is sometimes considered the greatest novel of
all time, and sometimes considered an impenetrable brick of a book. In
celebration of its centenary and on the anniversary of the day the book is set
(Bloomsday!) Chris and Suzanne trace the paths of its characters through the
streets of Dublin, revel in its sensuous writing, and consider what approaches
to reading the book encourages.
Show Notes.
James Joyce: Ulysses.
[Bookshop. Project
Gutenberg.]
Also by Joyce: Chamber Music.
Dubliners. A Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man. Finnegans
Wake.
We refer to several books we’ve discussed in previous episodes: The
Odyssey; Mrs.
Dalloway; The Divine
Comedy;
Middlemarch; A Moveable
Feast;
W; I Am
Woman.
Don Gifford: Ulysses Annotated.
Harry Blamires: The New Bloomsday Book.
Patrick Hastings: Ulyssesguide.com and The Guide
to James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The Joyce Project offers a heavily annotated
copy of the text.
An overview of the censoring of Ulysses in the
US.
An image of the edition with giant
letters.
A lecture by Johnna Purchase on graphic design and
Ulysses.
Écriture
feminine.
James Heffernen on Woolf’s reading of
Joyce.
The pharmacy mentioned in Ulysses.
Tracing Stephen Dedalus's gay desires.
Kate Bush is having a moment right now, so let’s add her adaptation of Molly’s
speech, The Sensual World.
Next: Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man.
[Bookshop.]
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon.
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