joyce s ulysses
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1) Structure of Joyce's Ulysses
2) Comparison with Homer's Odyssey
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English Literature
Joyce's Ulysses
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Joyce's life and works
Modernism
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STUCTURE OF THE BOOK
18 EPISODES modelled on equivalent episodes in Homer's text
PARODY
Hero anti-hero
·Imperfect, cannot rely on the kindness of the gods·deep and vital character
·exceptional qualities·can count on the favour of the gods·a stereotyped character
ULYSSES
In Homer's Odyssey In Joyce's work
·a greek soldier returning from the trojan war·delayed but bizarreperilous events and encounters·survives using wit·returns to his home in Ithaca
·Leopold Bloom is a middle aged advertising canvasser.·he goes out one morning leaving his wife in bed and wanders around Dublin.·he goes to different places and meets Stephen Dedalus.
TELEMACUS
·Son of Ulysses·forced to share his house with his mother's suitorswho treat him badly·turn to wise King Nestor for advice
STEPHEN DEDALUS
·an indigent pretentious young writer·he is evicted by his companions from their temporary home in a coastal tower·wanders the streets of Dublin looking for a house·meets Leopold Bloom who takes him to his home
PENELOPE MOLLY BLOOM
·Ulysses's faithful wife·avoids the advances of her suitors by busying herself with weaving a work which never finishes·a chaste woman
·Leoplod's unfaithful wife·a semi-professional singer·has had several lovers·while Bloom is out her latest lover visits her·very sensual woman
AN ODYSSEY IN CONSCIOUSNESS
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the wanderings ofLeopoldStephen DedalusMolly
Voyages into their own consciousness
Joyce records the subject's impressions, reflections, questions, memories and fantasies as they occur, triggered by physical sensations or associations of ideas
Interior monologue
INTERIOR MONOLOGUE
Tries to simulate the workings of the consciuosness in several ways:·incomplete sentences·interrupted syntax·sudden changes of tense·thoughts are connected through free associations·new information interferes with thoughts that are being elaborated
symbolic systemsense of realism:Joyce does not select materials , he keeps everything that passes through the mind
TIME
interior time external time
·dilated·intermingling of present, past, future
·24 hours on June 16th 1904
A MODERN EPIC
tries to bridge the divide between
the modern world the classical world
AN ENCYCLOPEDIC NOVEL
quotations from:Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare,Vico, Aquinasthe whole history of Western culture
employs every single rethorical technique and style in English:·latin lithurgy·Anglo-Saxon poetry·the language of advertising and slogans·the language of popular magazines
criticised as obscure,cahotic, incoherent,immoral
the reader is invited to play parts in the text like a game