EN2012: Dislocation and Exile in James Joyce's Ulysses

Dislocation and Exile in James Joyce’s Ulysses

Dr

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@b

runel.ac.

uk

“a novel to end all novels”?

“Where do you begin in this?”

b. 2nd February 1882, Dublin. Eldest of ten children surviving children of May Murray and John Joyce.

Educated at Clongowes Wood and Belvedere Colleges before entering the Royal University in 1898

As an adult, left Ireland and lived in Italy, Switzerland and France with wife Nora Barnacle and their two children.

Died 13th January 1941. Buried in Zürich.

“the literature of the latrine”

“pornography”

“a telephone directory”

“impossible to read”

“chaos”

“incoherent”

Censorship & Publication

“I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the

professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant”

“step toward making the modern world possible for art” T.S. Eliot

“Joyce’s characters not only speak their own language, but

they think their own language” Ezra Pound

“Ulysses looked like a novel, but it also looked like

drama, or catechism, or poetry, or music depending

on which page one happened to open”

(Johnson, xiii)

Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish Home Rule

Joyce in Europe

Style over substance?

Title Calypso Ithaca

Scene The House The House

Hour 8am 2am

Organ Kidney Skeleton

Art Economics Science

Colour Orange

Symbol Nymph Comets

Technic Narrative (mature) Catechism (impersonal)

Correspondences

Calypso; The Nymph; The Recall: Dlugascz; Ithaca: Zion.

Eurymachus: Boylan; Suitors: scruples; Bow: reason

The Gilbert Schema

Title Calypso Ithaca

Hour 8-9 1-2

Colour orange Starry milky

Persons Calypso (Penelope wife) Ulysses Callidike

Ulysses Telemachus Eurycleia The Suitors

Technic Dialogue for 2 Soliloquy Dialogue Pacified style, Fusion

Science, Art Mythology

Sense (Meaning) The Departing Wayfarer Armed Hope

Organ Kidneys Juices

Symbol Vagina, Exile, Kin, Nymph, Israel in captivity

The Linati Schema

“Calypso”

“Ithaca”

16th June 1904

James Joyce Podcasts and Resources

• http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/• http://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/scholarcast4.html• http://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/scholarcast13.html• http://www.utulsa.edu/jjq/default.htm

Mknao!