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Tag Archives: ulysses
Ulysses Update: Episode 15 – "Circe"
[image by FlickrJunkie] I think I may have lost my companions on the voyage through Ulysses, a loss I am feeling most keenly after reading this and the previous sections… I would love to know what they make of them. … Continue reading
Ulysses Update – Episode 14 – Oxen of the Sun
[image by occhiovivo] OK, so this is section that broke my back the first time I “read” (and the depth of my engagement that time demands the scare quotes) Ulysses, and it very nearly did so again this time. With … Continue reading
Ulysses Update – Episode 13 – Nausicaa
[image from litmuse; created by Jonathan Day] Ah, the infamous Gerty MacDowell. This is one section of Ulysses that has remained in my mind from the first reading and even before I had started considering the Homeric parallels, thinking instead … Continue reading
Ulysses Update – Part 12 – Cyclops
[photo by Walt Jabsco] A strange, strange section of Ulysses (I should get my terminology straight– these aren’t properly books, but section doesn’t accurately represent the degree to which each is different from one another. Part? Episode?). There are two … Continue reading
Ulysses Update: Book 11 – The Sirens
[art by mikem1115] This is a late update; I finished the “Sirens” section of Ulysses almost three weeks ago and have finished two more section since. As a result, I have only my marginal notes and poor memory to … Continue reading
Ulysses Update – Wandering Rocks
[photo by Jamelah] This relatively straightforwardly written section of Ulysses was quite a changeup from the complex “Scylla and Charybdis” book just before. In The Odyssey Ulysses chooses to sacrifice 6 of his men rather than risk the Wandering Rocks, … Continue reading
Ulysses Update
[photo by Bikkhu] Finished Book 9 (Scylla and Charybdis) of Ulysses. I found Book 9 fiendishly difficult, not because the writing style was impenetrable, but because I found it continually difficult to get a good grasp of the two main … Continue reading
Brief Ulysses Update
[image by maxf] Just finished Episode 8, The Laestrygonians. Random, likely incoherent thoughts that’ve crossed my mind over the last 60 pages or so: There’s something interesting and tricky going on with the voice and perspective of Bloom’s monologue… a … Continue reading
Ulysses Annotated
Ulysses Annotated is a great resource when tackling Joyce’s densely allusive novel, but in some ways it is almost as unwieldy as Ulysses itself! If you make it through the lengthy, but immensely useful introduction– which is generally concerned with … Continue reading
Joyce’s Prose Poetry
Some segments from Chapter 1 with a musicality that particularly appealed to my ear, even if they are sometimes unpleasant: If I were suddenly naked here as I sit? I am not. Across the sands of all the world, … Continue reading
Funnier Than I Remembered
Ulysses– at least through the first chapter– has more humor than I remembered. Perhaps because I was overwhelmed the first time around, I didn’t put catch it as often as I should. And Joyce tends to immediately follow the funniest … Continue reading
Ulysses – Sound and Sense
[photo by editor_tupp] Reading the first section of Ulysses, I was– like Scott– struck by the sound of the words tumbling around inside Stephen Dedalus’ head. There are many passages which read like (deeply allusive and heavily referential) prose poems. … Continue reading
(Re)Reading Ulysses
Monday morning I Twittered that I was digging into Ulysses, a book I read once and too-quickly many years ago, and before I knew it a few friends were joining in. We have formed some kind of rule-free, schedule-less reading … Continue reading