Podcast appearances and mentions of Stephen Dedalus

Here be monsters.We crack into Ulysses' ninth episode: "Scylla and Charybdis." Topics in this episode include: a great philosopher's thoughts on Shakespeare, Dermot, another great philosopher's, thoughts on Shakespeare, Odysseus' encounter with Scylla and Charybdis, the geography and currents of the Strait of Messina that likely inspired the story of Scylla and Charybdis, the triumphant return of Stephen Dedalus, Aristotle and Plato, George Æ Russell the engulfer of souls, why the brain is man's cruelest weapon, intellectual dialectic contrasted with empty rhetoric, the National Library of Ireland and why it's great, "The Holy Office", well-timed lunch, Stephen Dedalus' three forms of literature, Henrik Ibsen and the primacy of drama in Stephen's literary schema, and how to navigate between two sea monsters.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.Blooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube 

On this ID the Future out of the vault, host and geologist Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth's place in the cosmos is finely tuned for life. In this second half of their conversation, Gonzalez zooms out to discuss the galactic habitable zone and the cosmic habitable age. Luskin says that the combination of exquisite cosmic and local fine tuning strongly suggests intelligent design, but he asks Gonzalez whether he thinks these telltale clues favor theism over deism? That is, does any of the evidence suggest a cosmic designer who is more than just the clock maker God of the deists who, in the words of Stephen Dedalus, “remains within or behind Read More › Source

A wild Blazes Boylan appears.Topics in this episode include the incredible story of Reverend Thomas Connellan, the Bible Wars, Soupers, the Bird's Nest orphanage, apostasy and conversion, a typographical error heroically corrected, the blind stripling, whether or not the blind stripling actually wants help from Leopold Bloom, Bloom's savior complex, Bloom's empathy, the history of blind piano tuners, whether or not blind people's other senses are stronger than those of sighted people, whether or not wine loses its flavor based on appearance, parallels between the blind stripling and Stephen Dedalus, how Joyce's eye trouble influenced the development of the blind stripling, how Joyce used the blind stripling to work out his personal stuggles on the page, the dreams of blind people, the General Slocum disaster, Sir Frederick Falkiner, the Mirus Bazaar, Handel's Messiah, and escaping Blazes Boylan.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.Blooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

What if we held hands in the Akasic Record?Topics in this episode include too much information about the Freemasons, entering the Promised Land, Daniel O'Connell's mass meeting at Mullaghmast, political radicalism, the Akasic Record, Stephen's magic powers, rebutting John F. Taylor, Parnell's parliamentary finesse, argumentum ad pasiones, leaning into your own bias, the origin of the phrase "Dear Dirty Dublin," duplicitous newsies, disappointment for J.J. O'Molloy, Odysseus rebuffed by Aeolus, and Stephen girds his loins for creative outburst.On the Blog:The Language of the Outlaw: John F. Taylor's Speech in "Aeolus"Blooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

“Speaking about me. What did he say? What did he say? What did he say about me? Don't ask.”Topics in this episode include a rumor about Stephen, Professor Magennis, Æ the mastermystic, drama within Dublin's occult circles, how Æ helped James Joyce get published, the opal hush poets, Joycean tarot cards, D.P. Moran and The Leader, the horror of a truly clever nickname, mocking bad poetry, the Opal Hush cocktail, Pamela Colman Smith, Helena Blavatsky's old bag of tricks, theosophy, an American professor's visit to Dublin, Joyce's debut in the Dublin literary scene, microcosm and macrocosm, Mr Justice Fitzgibbon, more Tim Healy and Joyce's ability to hold a lifelong grudge.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:Decoding Dedalus: The Opal Hush Poets — Blooms & BarnaclesBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube 

Clamn dever.Topics in this episode include Dublin journalism minutiae, pallindromes, Lenehan's spoonerisms, the sad history behind the real-life inspiration for Professor MacHugh, the return of Stephen Dedalus' extremely erudite daydreams, Stephen punches up Douglas Hyde's poem, poetic meter and foot, rhyme and rhythm, the nightmare of history, Joyce's love of Dante, Dante's Divine Comedy, Francesca and Paolo's eternal damnation, a secret wind motif, Kelly and Dermot attempt to speak Italian, interlinguistic puns, and the oriflamme.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:Decoding Dedalus: RHYMES AND REASONSBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

On this episode of the Free Range Podcast, host Mike Livermore has a conversation with literary scholar Nicholas Allen about his recent book "Ireland, Literature and the Coast: Seatangled". The discussion begins with an examination of the book's evocative title. Allen explains that the phrase “seatangled” comes from a scene in James Joyce's “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” where the character Stephen Dedalus looks out at the seaweed shreds in the ocean as he contemplates his future. For Allen, this image captures the ideas of motion, flight, and piecing things together that are central to his analysis of Irish literature through the lens of the sea and coastline. The core of the book consists of close readings of authors, artists and specific works related to Irish coastal life and culture. Allen elaborates that he chose works that have long been stuck in his imagination, ranging from an early 20th century novel about a shipping clerk to the coastal maps created by artist Tim Robinson. His aim was not to be comprehensive but rather to highlight neglected or forgotten histories and show their continued cultural presence. In discussing his critical approach, Allen emphasizes that he is less interested in making definitive arguments and more interested in creating rhythms and connections that allow readers to see texts differently. He wants to find a descriptive language that conveys sensation and experience without colonizing or containing its subject. This pursuit of openness, empathy and freedom guides his writing. The conversation explores how the coast features as both literal place and literary metaphor in the book. Other topics include the creative aspects of literary criticism, the meaning of “critical thinking,” placing Irish literature in a global context, the complications of national literature as a category, and Allen's surprising archival discoveries while researching the book. Allen illuminates a fluid, interconnected approach to Irish literature that breaks down boundaries and expands perspectives.

Note: This interview was broadcast on KUT-FM, an NPR station based in Austin,Texas. James Joyce was born and raised in Dublin, and it was from Dublin he fled as a young man, to Trieste, in order to write Ulysses, perhaps the key novel of the early 20th century. But before he left, he began to write A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which, as most of us will remember, is a rite of passage not only for its main character, the sensitive, acute Stephen Dedalus (the alter ego for Joyce himself), but also for the impressed and impressionable reader. When I asked the scholar, bookseller and editor Maurice Earls to pick a piece of writing to discuss that's had a tremendous impact on him, it was this novel that he chose. Himself a Dubliner, Earls is joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books. Of special interest to ThoughtCast listeners, he's also penned an essay on Helen Vendler's Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Just hours before an author event was to take place in his small, singular independent bookstore Books Upstairs, ThoughtCast spoke with Earls about "A Portrait" at length. The conversation brought me back to my own strong feelings about this book, which had a tremendous impact on me as well, many years ago. Click here (24 minutes) to listen!

Note: This interview was broadcast on KUT-FM, an NPR station based in Austin,Texas. James Joyce was born and raised in Dublin, and it was from Dublin he fled as a young man, to Trieste, in order to write Ulysses, perhaps the key novel of the early 20th century. But before he left, he began to write A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which, as most of us will remember, is a rite of passage not only for its main character, the sensitive, acute Stephen Dedalus (the alter ego for Joyce himself), but also for the impressed and impressionable reader. When I asked the scholar, bookseller and editor Maurice Earls to pick a piece of writing to discuss that's had a tremendous impact on him, it was this novel that he chose. Himself a Dubliner, Earls is joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books. Of special interest to ThoughtCast listeners, he's also penned an essay on Helen Vendler's Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Just hours before an author event was to take place in his small, singular independent bookstore Books Upstairs, ThoughtCast spoke with Earls about "A Portrait" at length. The conversation brought me back to my own strong feelings about this book, which had a tremendous impact on me as well, many years ago. Click here (24 minutes) to listen!

How often does James Joyce think about the Roman Empire?Topics in this episode include Leopold Bloom bullied by children and adults, stealing upon larks, the Oval, The Rose of Castille, Lenehan's riddle unfulfilled, the Roman Empire as an analogue to the British Empire, puns, cloacae, the origin of the phrase “cloacal obsession,” H.G. Wells' review of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, MacHugh's anti-imperial oratory, Stephen Dedalus' favorite smells, “The Holy Office,” the British love of the watercloset, colonialist civilizing and British conquest, Sir John Harington and the first flush toilet, Ajax and a jakes, François Rabelais, Edward Said, and Dermot's impression of H.G. Wells.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:A Cloacal ObsessionBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

Why is this Bloomsday different from all other Bloomsdays?Topics in this episode include orthography, Dermot's recollections of working in graphic design, the saving grace of calligraphy, spellingbee conundrums, dayfathers, nightfathers, Old Monks, unions, an obituary surprise, Passover and how it shows up in Ulysses, Rudolph Bloom's Haggadah, how Charlton Heston traumatized us as children, seders, the oddity of a Catholic seder, embroideration, Bloom's youthful atheism, the wisdom to be found in Bloom's malapropisms, Bloom's shocking lack of knowledge about Judaism, Chad Gadya, what Joyce knew about Passover, hypostasis, how Stephen Dedalus accidentally celebrates Passover, Ulysses as “an epic of two races,” and how Ulysses functions as an Irish Haggadah.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:AND IT WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER

On this ID the Future host and geologist Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth's place in the cosmos is fine tuned for life. In this second half of their conversation, Gonzalez zooms out to discuss the galactic habitable zone and the cosmic habitable age. Luskin says that the combination of exquisite cosmic and local fine tuning strongly suggests intelligent design, but he asks Gonzalez whether he thinks these telltale clues favor theism over deism? That is, does any of the evidence suggest a cosmic designer who is more than just the clockmaker God of the deists who, in the words of Stephen Dedalus, “remains within or behind or beyond or above his Read More › Source

Ineluttabile modalità del dell'udibile. Nella sua passeggiata sulla spiaggia di Sandymount, Stephen Dedalus decide ora di chiudere gli occhi. Cosa sente? Cosa sperimenta? Dove viaggiano i suoi pensieri? Proviamo a scoprirlo assieme in questa puntata in bilico fra nebeneinander e nacheinander. La lettura in inglese del testo originale è ad opera di: Ulysses Broadcast - RTE Radio 1982 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(broadcast) Il testo del brano in originale, delle relative traduzioni e tutti gli altri riferimenti, fonti ed eventuali approfondimenti sono disponibili sul blog: https://www.ritrattodiulisse.com/ Il testo originale è tratto da "Ulysses" di James Joyce (1922) I brani letti delle traduzioni citate sono ad opera di: Giulio De Angelis (Ulisse, 1960, Mondadori) Enrico Terrinoni (Ulisse , 2012, Newton Compton) Gianni Celati (Ulisse, 2013, Einaudi) Mario Biondi (Ulisse, 2020, La Nave di Teseo), Alessandro Ceni (2021, Feltrinelli) Livio Crescenzi, Tonina Giuliani, Marta Viazzoli (2021 Mattioli1885), Marco Marzagalli (2021 traduzione libera indipendente) Guarda tutti i video su YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJBcZmWWmlya9nyJ_RDBq3WOnW6twdmYo Segui il mio profilo su Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_andreacarloni_/

Der 16. Juni ist für Leseratten in aller Welt ein besonderer Tag. An jenem Tag im Jahre 1904 haben Leopold Bloom und Stephen Dedalus, die beiden Protagonisten aus James Joyces' Jahrhundertwerk "Ulysses", einem der bedeutendsten modernen Romane der Moderne, ihre abenteuerliche Reise durch Dublin unternommen. Diesen Tag nennt man bis heute "Bloomsday", und er ist ein traditionsreicher Tag für Joyce-Fans. Von Tokio bis Sydney, San Francisco bis Paris feiern Menschen rund um den Erdball ihre eigenen Bloomsday-Feste - vor allem aber in der Heimat von Joyce: in Dublin. Michael Marek war für uns auf den Spuren des Autors in der irischen Hauptstadt - dort, wo Literatur und Pubkultur zusammengehören wie Guinness und Hammelnieren zum Bloomsday-Frühstück.

Today is June 16, Bloomsday, the day in 1904 on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place. But this year also marks the 100th anniversary of its publication, and to celebrate the occasion, The American Scholar asked five writers for their thoughts on Joyce's modern masterpiece. One of them, Flicka Small, wrote about the food in the novel, from the inner organs of beasts and fowls that Leopold Bloom eats with relish to the Gorgonzola on his sandwich—not to mention Molly Bloom's sensuous seed cake, Blazes Boylans's suggestive peaches, and everything that Stephen Dedalus can't afford to eat. Flicka Small came to her lectureship at University College Cork by way of her earlier career as a chef, giving her a singular perspective on the wild array of foods that appear on that famous day in Dublin, Ireland.Go beyond the episode:Read Flicka Small's contribution to our Joyce centennial, “Know Me Come Eat With Me”Read the other four essays: Robert J. Seidman on why Ulysses is as vital as ever; Keri Walsh's celebration of the novel's first publisher, Sylvia Beach; Donal Ryan on the three times he's read it; and Amit Chaudhuri on just having fun with the flowBloomsday 2022 is on in Ireland and around the worldWhip up some pan-fried kidneys, a Gorgonzola sandwich, or some sugarsticky sweetsWe borrowed the title of this episode from Alison Armstrong's excellent 1986 cookbook, The Joyce of Cooking, which you can find in used bookstoresTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes (Cambridge UP, 2022) - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes (Cambridge UP, 2022) - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes (Cambridge UP, 2022) - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes (Cambridge UP, 2022) - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes (Cambridge UP, 2022) - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes (Cambridge UP, 2022) - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes (Cambridge UP, 2022) - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes (Cambridge UP, 2022) - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years.

In this special episode Alice, Lex and Adam geek out with the man who—Joyce aside—has probably been cited more than any other in our podcast: Professor Declan Kiberd. Professor Kiberd is the author of Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living, as well as the introduction to the Penguin Classics official partner edition.Buy Ulysses and Us: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780571242559/ulysses-and-us-the-art-of-everyday-living*In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world. As much a guide to contemporary life as it is virtuoso work of literary criticism, Ulysses and Us offers revolutionary insights to the scholar and the first-time reader alike. Leopold Bloom, the half-Jewish Irishman who is the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, teaches the young Stephen Dedalus (modelled on Joyce himself) how he can grow and mature as an artist and an adult human being. Bloom has learned to live with contradictions, with anxiety and sexual jealousy, and with the rudeness and racism of the people he encounters in the city streets, and in his apparently banal way sees deeper than any of them. He embodies an intensely ordinary kind of wisdom, Kiberd argues, and in this way offers us a model for living well, in the tradition of the literature upon which Joyce drew in writing Ulysses, such as Homer, Dante and the Bible.Declan Kiberd is the author of Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation, which won the Irish Times Prize in 1995. It is one of the most influential works on Irish culture published in the last twenty years. His Irish Classics came out in 2000 and won the prestigious Lannan Prize in the USA. He is the Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at University College Dublin and is a widely respected broadcaster, critic and reviewer.*A student of environmental policy at Sciences Po-Paris, Alice McCrum runs programming at the American Library in Paris. In between fits of Joycean nerdery, Dr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco. An adopted Parisian, he teaches at Sciences Po-Paris and writes on the past and future of democracy. Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company, Paris. He is the author of the novel Feeding Time, available in French as Défense de nourrir les vieux. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Blooms & Barnacles chat with composer Benjamin Wenzeberg about his new, Ulysses-inspired opera NIGHTTTOWN.Topics include adapting Ulysses for the stage, the process of writing an opera during Covid, gender politics and #metoo in Ulysses, gender-inclusive casting, Molly as a force of nature, the proper use of Italian, the symbolic power of musical notation, and Stephen Dedalus' vulnerability.

Concludiamo le puntate dedicate al secondo episodio dell'Ulisse, con questo brano dove si affronta la questione del popolo ebraico e dell'antisemitismo, fra le imbarazzanti e fuorvianti affermazioni di Mr Deasy, e le visioni mentali di Stephen Dedalus, che si congederà da lui e dalla scuola, prima di incamminarsi verso la spiaggia. La lettura in inglese del testo originale è ad opera di: Ulysses Broadcast - RTE Radio 1982 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(broadcast) Il testo del brano in originale, delle relative traduzioni e tutti gli altri riferimenti, fonti ed eventuali approfondimenti sono disponibili sul blog: https://www.ritrattodiulisse.com/ Il testo originale è tratto da "Ulysses" di James Joyce (1922) I brani letti delle traduzioni citate sono ad opera di: Giulio De Angelis (Ulisse, 1960, Mondadori) Enrico Terrinoni (Ulisse , 2012, Newton Compton) Gianni Celati (Ulisse, 2013, Einaudi) Mario Biondi (Ulisse, 2020, La Nave di Teseo) Guarda tutti i video su YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJBcZmWWmlya9nyJ_RDBq3WOnW6twdmYo Segui il mio profilo su Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_andreacarloni_/

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology's consummate craftsman. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology's consummate craftsman. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology's consummate craftsman. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology's consummate craftsman. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology's consummate craftsman. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

2022 marks the 100-year anniversary of James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Why is this text still so widely read? What makes it such a difficult novel to read? I was first introduced to Joyce as an undergraduate, and it was difficult to read through, but incredibly rewarding. You feel like you've accomplished something special when you get through a text like Ulysses or Finnigan's Wake. This week on the Neutral Ground Podcast, our guest is Dr. Sam Slote. Sam is an Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His area of specialty is James Joyce, so he's the perfect person to speak to about this topic. We talk about the difficulty in reading Ulysses; how Joyce used multiple genre's within the text; the important role that Shakespeare played in inspiring Joyce's work; why Joyce respected Dante's epic over all others, including the Odyssey; the Bloom's Day phenomenon; the philosophy of Stephen Dedalus; Nietzsche's influence on Joyce; and where Joyce studies are going today. // EPISODE LINKS // Dr. Slote's Works (Affiliate): https://amzn.to/3KA5Li2 // SOCIAL MEDIA // Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjoemeyer/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theneutralgroundpodcast/?ref=pages_you_manage LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theneutralgroundpodcast/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: Subscribe/follow the podcast. Leave a rating/comment wherever applicable. Visit the main website for The Neutral Ground Podcast at https://theneutralgroundpodcast.com/ and send me an email or leave an audio message for me with some thoughts or questions about one of our topics. Buy me a cup of Ko-Fi at https://ko-fi.com/theneutralgroundpodcast. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theneutralgroundpodcast| Any one of the above items is equally important to me. I am genuinely humbled and moved by the feedback I'm receiving, and the support that I'm getting from all of you. Thank you I realize that you do not have to do any of this. Therefore, even f you do just one of those items listed, I am genuinely grateful. Try to keep one foot firmly planted on the Neutral Ground, and have a great day. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joemeyer/message

Tuesday, 15 February 2022, 7 – 8:15pm A panel discussion organised by Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute to mark the start of a new multiannual discussion series ‘Literature and Resistance.' The discussion will be chaired by Professor Darryl Jones. Literature, says Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses, is “the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man”. For many writers, in many different times, places, and contexts, to affirm has been to resist. In the first event in the Hub's new signature series, Literature and Resistance, four Trinity experts consider the ways that literature – and the act of writing itself – can function or be understood as resistance. Exploring what this means for writers, readers, and critics, they will consider issues including freedom of expression, the circulation, censorship and survival of literary texts, and the aesthetics of protest, dissent, and opposition. Panellist Julie Bates Dr Julie Bates, Assistant Professor in Irish Writing, School of English, Trinity College Dublin. Mary Cosgrove Professor in German, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Jude dal Fernando Dr Jude Lal Fernando is Assistant Professor inSchool of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Carlo Gébler Carlo Gébler Adjunct Professor in Creative Writing, Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College Dublin. About the Trinity's Centre for Resistance Studies The Centre for Resistance Studies fosters interdisciplinary research in Trinity College Dublin in relation to the various types and forms of resistance and its cognate notions, including opposition, dissent, resilience, protest, and non-conformism. https://www.tcd.ie/resistance/about/

Chris Hedges discuss James Joyce's Ulysses with Professor Sam Slote on the centennial of its publication. One hundred years ago this week, Sylvia Beach, who ran the bookstore Shakespeare and Company on 12 rue de l'Odéon in Paris, placed a copy of a book she had published, ‘Ulysses' by James Joyce, in the window. Ulysses, with white letters on a blue book cover, had been rejected by publishers in English-speaking countries. The story takes place during a single day in Dublin, June 16, 1904. It would swiftly become one of the most important novels of the 20th century, at once ancient and modern, drawing its inspiration from Homer's ‘The Odyssey'. Ulysses is the Latin name for Homer's hero Odysseus. The mythical figures in Homer's epic are reincarnated in the lives of the Irish working-class. Ulysses, king of Ithaca, mastermind of the Greek war against Troy, heroic voyager, and merciless slayer of the suitors who besieged his wife during his long absence, becomes in Joyce's hands Leopold Bloom, a 38-year-old ad canvasser for the nationalist newspaper Freeman's Journal. Leopold, of Hungarian Jewish extraction, mourns throughout the book his infant son Rudy who died over a decade earlier, a loss that severed his sexual relations with his wife Molly. Ulysses' son Telemachus, who sets out to seek his long-absent father at the beginning of The Odyssey, is reincarnated as Stephen Dedalus, a fictionalized version of Joyce's younger self. Penelope, the faithful wife of Ulysses, is reincarnated as Molly, the adulterous wife of Leopold Bloom who during the day has a tryst with her lover Hugh ‘Blazes' Boylan. “Unimpressive as Bloom may seem in so many ways,” writes Joyce's biographer Richard Ellman, “unworthy to catch marlin or countesses with Hemingway's characters, or to sop up guilt with Faulkner's, or to sit on committees with C.P Snow's, Bloom is a humble vessel elected to bear and transmit unimpeached the best qualities of the mind. Joyce's discovery, so humanistic that he would have been embarrassed to disclose it out of context, was that the ordinary is the extraordinary.” Joyce's characters exhibit our common human frailties, inconsistences, contradictions, and ambiguities, not to mention explicit bodily functions from defecation to masturbation. They evoke our sympathy and respect, offering, perhaps, a new conception of greatness. Professor Sam Slote is a Joyce scholar and teaches English at Trinity College Dublin. He is in charge of the Symposium to be held at Trinity College to mark the centennial of Ulysses' publication.

Five Irish writers each take a passage from James Joyce's Ulysses and, through a close reading, explore its meaning and significance within the wider work, as well as what it means to them. This February marks the centenary of the novel's publication. Reading Ulysses is a famously challenging experience for most readers, so can our Essayists help? In the fourth essay of the series, novelist and short story writer Mary Costello selects an excerpt from an episode full of questions and answers, known as Ithaca. The episode sees Leopold Bloom, the novel's main character, and his friend Stephen Dedalus walk back to Bloom's house in the middle of the night. In the passage which Mary selects, Bloom has got home and turns on the tap to fill the kettle. Mary says that what follows is a "magnificent, bird's-eye view of the water's journey from County Wicklow" all the way through the city to the Mr Bloom's sink. Mary argues that Ithaca is compelling not just because of the maths, science and language contained within it but also because of the fuller picture it paints of Mr Leopold Bloom. Presenter: Mary Costello Producer: Camellia Sinclair

Eric, Wendy, and Shinjini discuss gender and relationships in the first episode of Ulysses: “Telemachus.” Is the banality of Ulysses fun or frustrating? In what way is Stephen Dedalus like Luke Skywalker? Is the black panther Haines dreams of a penis and pussy thing? Theme song: “Come on Over” by Scalcairn, via Blue Dot Sessions Special thanks to Carin Goldberg, whose cover design for the Gabler edition inspired our logo.

Five Irish writers each take a passage from James Joyce's Ulysses and, through a close reading, explore its meaning and significance within the wider work, as well as what it means to them. February 2022 marks the centenary of the novel's publication. Reading Ulysses is a famously challenging experience for most readers, so can our Essayists help? In the first essay of the series, award-winning Irish writer Anne Enright explores the first couple of pages of Joyce's epic. She examines the characters of Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus - the two men we first meet at the top of a tower overlooking Dublin Bay. She tells us from where Joyce drew his inspiration in creating his protagonists and she reveals a little about how she first discovered the famous tome. Part of Radio 3 and Radio 4's season of programme marking the Modernist movement. Presenter: Anne Enright Producer: Camellia Sinclair

Bloomcast │Episode 1│Telemachus, Nestor, and Proteus Welcome to Bloomcast, a ten-part plunge into James Joyce's Ulysses presented by Adam Biles, Alice McCrum, and Lex Paulson, live from Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. Join them as they muddle through this radical, sublime, and often misunderstood novel first published one hundred years ago, in 1922. Voilà! Here is episode one, in which they discuss: the reasons to read Ulysses (and how not to); Joyce's ambitions, gifts, and wiles; the historical, cultural, and biographical context of the novel; the women that brought his epic to life; as well as the first three episodes of the novel,, featuring Stephen Dedalus, Buck Mulligan, William Shakespeare, Leo Taxil, and the most famous nose-picking in Western literature. Please share your thoughts on the book and anything you'd like to hear us discuss: ulysses@shakespeareandcompany.com A student of environmental policy at Sciences Po-Paris, Alice McCrum runs programming at the American Library in Paris. In between fits of Joycean nerdery, Dr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco. An adopted Parisian, he teaches at Sciences Po-Paris and writes on the past and future of democracy. Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company, Paris. He is the author of the novel Feeding Time, available in French as Défense de nourrir les vieux.*SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Spotify here: https://anchor.fm/sandcoSubscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSHear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode’s passage comes from p. 50-51 in my edition of Ulysses (1990 Vintage International), and covers the passage beginning “Come. I thirst.” and ending “…a silent ship.” We did it!!! We finally finished “Proteus”! We’re covering the last page of Ulysses’ third episode this week. Topics include Dermot’s love of tall ships and the Master and Commander novels, why a ship isn’t always a ship, Biblical allusions galore, why Stephen invokes Lucifer, cockle hats and sandal shoon, how Stephen tamed Proteus, half-remembered Tennyson, Stephen’s terrible teeth, themes of decay and creation, Kinch the Superman, the symbolism of shells, Stephen the nose picker, heraldry, the appearance of the Rosevean, and a nautical representation of the crucifixion.Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe! Social Media:Facebook | Twitter Subscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher

How exactly does God become a featherbed mountain? What the heck is a featherbed mountain? We answer these questions and more in this episode of Blooms & Barnacles!Topics covered in this episode include Dermot’s hot take on Richard Dawkins, Renaissance magic, theosophy, metempsychosis, Dublin seagulls, linear v. cyclical world-views, Dermot takes on Jared Diamond, consubstantiality, the Stephen seeks freedom from his father, the ichthys symbol, minnows eating spongy titbits, Hamlet, the legend of the barnacle goose, Gerald of Wales, the conundrum that barnacle geese caused the Catholic Church, the immaculate conception of barnacle geese, domestic geese v. wild geese, the Featherbed Mountains, Molly’s featherbed, why Lenehan is the worst, and why Stephen needs the love and support of a good friend.Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe!On the Blog:Decoding Dedalus: God Becomes Featherbed Mountain Social Media:Facebook | Twitter Subscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher 

The end is nigh.Kelly and Dermot discuss in the depth the drowning motif of “Proteus”. Other topics include The Tempest and Ariel’s Song, the wily nature of the sea, Stephen’s estrangement from his father Simon, the role of alcohol in the lives of Ulysses characters, quitting alcohol, rising corpses, sea change, porpoises, the ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth, spongy titbits, Stephen’s connection to a corpse, looking for a way out of a suffocating home life, why Buck Mulligan is a terrible friend, Stephen’s fear of failure and of becoming his father, Stephen’s guilt at abandoning his sisters, the mentality of a bucket of crabs, and why Dermot thinks the Dedalus family would have been great on The Jerry Springer Show.On the Blog:Decoding Dedalus: Full Fathom FiveSocial Media:Facebook | TwitterSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher

Partiamo con il 2° episodio dell'Ulisse e lo facciamo assistendo ad una bizzarra lezione di storia tenuta da Stephen Dedalus. In classe si respira un'aria quasi grottesca. Le domande e le risposte fra insegnante e alunni, si alternano ai monologhi interiori di Dedalus. La lettura in inglese del testo originale è ad opera di: Ulysses Broadcast - RTE Radio 1982 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(broadcast) Il testo originale è tratto da "Ulysses" di James Joyce (1922); i brani letti delle traduzioni citate sono ad opera di: Giulio De Angelis (1960 Mondadori), Enrico Terrinoni (2012 Newton Compton), Gianni Celati (2013 Einaudi), Mario Biondi (2020 La Nave di Teseo) Il testo del brano in originale, delle relative traduzioni e tutti gli altri riferimenti, fonti ed eventuali approfondimenti sono disponibili sul blog: https://www.ritrattodiulisse.com/ Per guardare i video del canale youtube, clicca qui sotto: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJBcZmWWmlya9nyJ_RDBq3WOnW6twdmYo

**If you’re unfamiliar with the peeing Calvin decal (or if you are), here’s the story.The divine and the profane live side by side in Ulysses. In this episode, we discuss what the heck Cock Lake is, why Stephen pees on the strand at the end of “Proteus”, the themes of generation and corruption in “Proteus”, the artistic merits of excrement, urination as an expression of freedom and creativity, Mother Grogan and her teapot, endowing waves with speech and animating the natural world, onomatopoeia, the rolling tide, St. Ambrose and the groaning of Creation, Ariel’s Song and The Tempest, and Dermot’s anti-Shakespeare propaganda.Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe!Social Media:Facebook|TwitterSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts| Google Play Music| Stitcher

“Toda vida consiste en muchos días, día tras día, caminamos a través de nosotros mismos encontrando ladrones, fantasmas, gigantes, viejos, jóvenes, esposas, viudas….”. Fragmento de 'Ulises', de James Joyce. Nacido en 1.882 en un suburbio de Dublín, James Joyce creció en la pobreza desde que su padre perdió su trabajo como recaudador de impuestos. En la Universidad de esta ciudad estudió inglés, francés e italiano; luego se trasladó a París con la intención de estudiar medicina. Regresó a Dublín al morir su madre, y malvivió como reseñista y maestro. En 1.904 se fugó a Zurich con Nora Barnacle. Más tarde obtendría un puesto de maestro en Triestre. Su libro de relatos “Dublineses”, se publicó en 1.914, y en 1.916 la novela “Retrato del artista adolescente”.”Ulises” salió a la luz en 1.922. Cuando la revista estadounidense “The little Review”publicó fragmentos de la novela, fue demandada por obscenidad. En 1.920 Joyce se trasladó a París, donde vivió veinte años. Allí escribió su obra maestra final, “Finnegans Wake”. En 1.940, huyendo de la invasión nazi, regresó a Zurich, donde falleció en 1.941. La acción de “Ulises” tiene lugar en Dublín y sus alrededores el 16 de Junio de 1.904, y son tres los principales personajes: Stephen Dedalus, de 22 años, maestro y aspirante a escritor; Leopold Bloom, agente de publicidad, medio judío húngaro y medio irlandés, de 38 años; y su esposa Molly, una cantante de 34 años de la que Leopold sospecha, acertadamente, que le es infiel con un vividor conocido como Blazes Boylan. La novela presenta otros muchos personajes, y de la vida interior de Stephen, Bloom y Molly surge un Dublín caleidoscópico, condensado en un cuarto de millón de palabras de inventiva microscópicamente detallada. Al desnudar la multiplicidad de pensamientos, emociones y acciones, incluidas las fisiológicas, de los tres personajes a lo largo de un día y su noche, “Ulises” hace público lo privado a una escala nunca vista antes en la narrativa. Además de las calles de Dublín los escenarios principales de la obra son una torre defensiva habitable, un colegio, una playa, una casa, una carnicería, un cementerio, la redacción de un periódico, una biblioteca, una funeraria, una sala de conciertos, una taberna, un hospital, un burdel y el llamado Refugio del Cochero. Los primeros capítulos tienden un puente con la novela previa, autobiográfica, “Retrato del artista adolescente”, que narra como Stephen Dedalus adquiere la confianza necesaria para liberar su talento de las presiones conformistas de la Iglesia católica, de su formación y de su país. En “Ulises”, Stephen reaparece por la mañana enfrascado en un duelo verbal con su cínico amigo Buck Mulligan en la torre donde viven, en Sandycove. Recuerda a su madre en su lecho de muerte y, sintiéndose culpable, reflexiona sobre su rechazo a rezar por ella, basado en sus principios ateos. Luego imparte una lección de historia y camina por la playa. La narración retrocede a las ocho de la mañana y adopta por completo el estilo del flujo de conciencia mientras el lector sigue a Leopold Bloom planeando el desayuno en casa, comprándolo en la carnicería, preparándolo y subiéndolo en una bandeja a Molly. Joice utiliza el monologo interior en grados diversos para relatar las experiencias de Stephen, Boom y Molly; pero para hacer avanzar la acción, entrelaza hábilmente el monólogo interior y la narración en tercera persona. Leopold Bloom es uno de los personajes más conseguidos de la literatura. Es un hombre corriente con los apetitos normales, inteligente pero lejos de ser un intelectual. Tiene un carácter afable, muestra gusto por la comodidad y procura evitar la confrontación. En su presentación, la sencilla relación que mantiene con sus funciones corporales y con algunas personas de su entorno lo distinguen claramente del cerebral y susceptible Stephen. El último episodio de “Ulises” es una obra maestra del monólogo interior. Revela los pensamientos más íntimos de Molly por la noche, tumbada en la cama al borde del sueño. Hasta ese momento, hemos visto a Molly a través de los ojos de su celoso marido, Leopold Bloom. El cambio de punto de vista, o sea de masculino a femenino, que aquí se produce es uno de las más brillantes de la literatura moderna. Tras haber descrito la cultura patriarcal de la ciudad, en la que las mujeres tienen un papel clave como esposas, madres y prostitutas, fuentes de sustento emocional y de satisfacción física, sin que su voz sea escuchada, Joyce restaura el equilibrio dando a Molly una voz propia. Permitir que su protagonista femenina tenga la última palabra es un testimonio de la imaginación omnímoda de Joyce. Con todo algunas críticas feministas ven a Molly, en su pasividad, como una criatura hecha de malas interpretaciones masculinas. Mientras Molly yace en la cama, el monólogo interior puede alcanzar su forma más pura, sin interrupciones narrativas. La puntuación desaparece. Los recuerdos se empujan entre sí. El lenguaje franco, con vulgares coloquialismos, cede el paso a un recuerdo de juventud en Gibraltar y del cortejo posterior por parte de Bloom, expresado en el estilo de la narración romántica. Este estilo no es un mero recurso literario: forma parte del lenguaje interior de la sensibilidad romántica, si bien carnal, de Molly. La experimentación lingüística no es el único recurso literario que apuntala esta obra multidimensional. El título, “Ulises”, es la pista de una elaborada subestructura simbólica. Ulises es el nombre latino de Odiseo, el rey griego de Ítaca protagonista de la “Odisea” de Homero, que pasó los diez años posteriores a la guerra de Troya como aventurero errante antes de regresar a su hogar. Joyce identifica a Leopold Bloom con Odiseo y a Stephen con su hijo, Telémaco, que en los cuatro primeros libros de la Odisea busca en vano a su padre perdido; y asocia a Molly con Penélope, esposa de Odiseo, quién cree que su marido aún vive y que regresará. Cada uno de los dieciocho episodios o capítulos de la novela se corresponde con una aventura de la epopeya homérica. Los tres primeros se centran en Stephen y siguen una estructura que recuerda a la de la “Odisea”. En el tercer episodio, Stephen cuestiona la institución de la paternidad mientras piensa en una discusión en una biblioteca. El pasaje traduce los aprietos de Telémaco como hijo sin padre en un debate abstracto sobre la noción moderna de la relación padre-hijo. En el episodio doce, el Cíclope de la “Odisea” toma la forma de un patriota agresivamente xenófobo que discute a gritos con Bloom. El estrecho chovinismo de este ciudadano es un reflejo de la limitada vista del Cíclope. Más tarde, el narrador sin nombre hace referencia a un deshollinador que casi le metió la herramienta en un ojo, lo que trae a la memoria el ataque de Odiseo al Cíclope. El valor temático del paralelismo homérico es más fuerte en los roles míticos adjudicados a Stephen y a Bloom. Stephen busca de forma inconsciente el apoyo de una figura paterna para poder convertirse él mismo en padre, tanto literal como artísticamente. Los pasajes sobre la Santísima Trinidad, que contiene la más compleja de todas las relaciones paterno-filiales, y sobre el Hamlet de Shakespeare, desgarrado por los pensamientos de venganza contra el asesino de su padre, que ahora es su propio padrastro, suman capas de significado a la búsqueda de Stephen. Recíprocamente, Bloom (cuyo hijo Rudy murió once años atrás) tiene la profunda necesidad psicológica de un hijo. Esto añade patetismo a la dinámica Odiseo-Telémaco. Bloom y Stephen se encuentran por casualidad en el hospital de maternidad de la calle Holles; la asociación del lugar con el nacimiento y la paternidad no es accidental. A su debido tiempo, Bloom salva a Stephen de ser arrestado tras una reyerta en el barrio rojo. Cuando, más tarde esa misma noche, se sientan a beber cacao en la cocina de Bloom, Stephen vislumbra el pasado en Bloom, mientras que este ve el futuro en Stephen. De acuerdo con la sutileza narrativa propia de Joyce, este reconocimiento mutuo es una insinuación fugaz, más que un clímax evidente. Además de proporcionar un juego de correspondencias simbólicas, el marco homérico permitió a Joyce insinuar que Bloom, el hombre corriente, podía tener una dimensión heroica. Se trata de un heroísmo, o antiheroísmo, de lo cotidiano, que se demuestra principalmente en el interior de la mente, palestra de los miedos y anhelos del individuo. Es aquí donde uno combate los celos, la ira, la vergüenza y la culpa, y donde abriga la esperanza y el amor que dan a la vida su significado. Tras el punto final de la novela, James Joyce dejó un recordatorio de su propio viaje odiseico como autor: “Triestre-Zúrich-París, 1.914-1.921”. Pese a su talante cosmopolita, el autor sentía el tirón del exilio. Pero vivir en el extranjero le permitió recrear Dublín, en toda su vulgaridad y vitalidad, como el hogar de su imaginación. En 1.904, año en que se sitúa la obra, los sentimientos políticos estaban exaltados tras el fracaso de la Home Rule, un intento de dotar de autogobierno a Irlanda. En 1.922, el año en que se publicó “Ulises”, y tras una sangrienta guerra civil, se formó el Estado Libre Irlandés. Como reflejo de esta realidad política, los personajes del Dublín ficticio de Joyce están llenos de inquietud en su relación con las instituciones y movimientos: el Imperio británico, la Iglesia católica, el nacionalismo irlandés y el renacimiento céltico. Así, a la vez que “Ulises” presenta los detalles de la experiencia individual con una franqueza sin precedentes, también traza un resuelto retrato del agitado microcosmos de la sociedad irlandesa. Sin embargo, todos los temas de la novela están subordinados a la viva riqueza de su mundo ficticio. La verdadera fuerza de la obra procede de la vida vertida en ella, más aún que de sus elaborados artificios literarios. En el corazón de “Ulises” están las vidas y los amores de los dublineses, plasmados con una verosimilitud asombrosa. Los muchos recursos que Joyce se atrevió a poner en juego en esta obra constituyeron un revulsivo para la novela burguesa convencional. Sus atrevimientos fueron tantos que la censura existentes en los países anglosajones la emprendió con “Ulises”; el sentido puritano de la moral protestante consideró obscenas muchas de las referencias sensuales que llenan la novela. A la moral imperante le molestaron no ya sólo las escenas sexuales, que no son pocas, sino todo aquello que sonase a sensorial. Y, en “Ulises”, todo suena; toda palabra tiene en ella una sensorialidad muy acusada: tanto, que su lectura puede llegar a saturar los sentidos y, en determinadas escenas, a enardecerlos o desagradarlos. Pero, desde luego, como no puede quedar el lector es indiferente: había nacido una nueva forma de novelar.

Kelly helps Dermot remember why he drew James Joyce wearing red, killer heels. Topics include subtle Homeric correspondences, Dermot’s allegiance to Mr. Kipling’s cakes, Stéphane Mallarmé’s ‘L'après-midi d'un faune’ (The afternoon of a faun), more ire directed at that mocker Buck Mulligan, Stephen’s tiny feet, Stephen’s erstwhile friendship with Cranly, Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, John Francis Byrne, Cranly’s feelings for Stephen, Wilde’s love that dare not speak its name, themes of masculinity and male friendships, Senator David Norris on gay themes in Ulysses and Dedalus/Mulligan slash fiction.On the Blog:Decoding Dedalus: A Dedalus Never Pays His DebtsThe Love That Dare Not Speak Its NameSocial Media:Facebook|TwitterSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts| Google Play Music| Stitcher

Kelly and Dermot take on a deceptively simple passage in “Proteus” as they attempt to answer that ultimate question - what is the word known to all men?Topics covered in this episode include Stephen’s loneliness and why Joyce felt it was necessary for him to be totally alone, a mysterious discrepancy in Ulysses’ various editions, the 1984 Gabler edition of Ulysses, the universal Truth of a mother’s love, the universal Truth of death, how to escape from a troublesome duality, Rawhead and Bloodybones, the connection between love and death, and crab people.No Berkelyan idealism, we promise!**A note from the Department of Corrections: Kelly remarks that her 1990 edition of Ulysses contains the text as it was corrected and reset in 1963. That year should have been 1961. The responsible parties have been flogged.Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe!On the Blog:The Word Known to All MenSocial Media:Facebook|TwitterSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts| Google Play Music| Stitcher

Form of my form! Who watches me here?Kelly and Dermot wade into the final pages of “Proteus” to spend some time with old faves like Aristotle, Bishop Berkeley and Giordano Bruno. We dig deeper into Stephen Dedalus’ internal monologue while discussing Stephen’s concern for his future legacy, Stephen’s shadow, darkness shining in the brightness, the squid people of Procyon 5, the Delta of Cassiopeia, Roman augury, Giordano Bruno’s belief that the constellations were morally corrupt, and the written word as a Berkeleyan abstraction. Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe!On the Blog:Decoding Dedalus: Signs on a White FieldForm of FormsSocial Media:Facebook|TwitterSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts| Google Play Music| Stitcher

White thy fambles, Red thy gan!Wait, what?Find out what this phrase and much more means in this episode as we continue our discussion of "Proteus," the third episode in James Joyce's Ulysses. Topics covered in this show include: what Stephen means by "red Egyptians," background on the Romani and Irish Travellers, Stephen's class insecurity, Terry Pratchett's Mort, strolling morts more generally, the distinct language of Romani and the Travellers,  The Our Father in Shelta, the secret language of thieves in 17th c. England, strolling morts, The Rogue's Delight, she-fiends, bawd pimps, whores, an example of too-polite annotations, Stephen's morose delectation, Thomas Aquinas' nicknames, and Stephen's realization that all words are his comrades.Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe!On the Blog:Poetry in Ulysses: White Thy Fambles, Red Thy GanSocial Media:Facebook|TwitterSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:iTunes| Google Play Music| StitcherMedia Mentioned in This Episode:The Canting AcademyRothenburg's translation of the Rogue's DelightStuff You Should Know, How Gypsies WorkFurther Reading & Listening:Ahlstrom, D. (2017, Feb 9). Travellers as ‘genetically different’ from settled Irish as Spanish. The Irish Times. Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/travellers-as-genetically-different-from-settled-irish-as-spanish-1.2969515Bakker, Peter. (2002). An early vocabulary of British Romani (1616): A linguistic analysis. Romani Studies. 12. 10.3828/rs.2002.4. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20111004125822/http://www.marston.co.uk/RSPP/LUPRSV012P02A00075.pdfBudgen, F. (1972). James Joyce and the making of Ulysses, and other writings. London: Oxford University Press.Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press.Johnson, S. (2011, Nov 14). Gypsy Paradise Lost. Vice. Retrieved from https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/ppqp3z/gypsy-paradise-lost-0000047-v18n11Keefe, A. (2016, Aug 17). Life With the Irish Travellers Reveals a Bygone World. National Geographic. Retrieved from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2016/08/irish-travellers-uphold-the-traditions-of-a-bygone-world/O’Leary, P. (2017, Sep 13). We Travellers must take a stand against racism, for the sake of our children. The Guardian.Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/13/travellers-racism-hate-speech-discrimination-irishReidy, J. (2017, Aug 11). The harmful history of “Gypsy.” Bitch Media. Retrieved from https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/gypsy-slur-netlflixRussell, C. (2017, Feb 9). Study on ancestry of Irish Travellers details genetic connection to settled community. The Journal. Retrieved from https://www.thejournal.ie/traveller-community-study-rcsi-3231070-Feb2017/Van Huygen, M. (2016, Sep 20). Uncovering Thieves’ Cant, the Elizabethan Slang of the Underworld. Mental Floss. Retrieved from http://mentalfloss.com/article/86148/uncovering-thieves-cant-elizabethan-slang-underworld 

Kelly and Dermot take a look at Stephen Dedalus' prophetic dream in "Proteus." Topics discussed include James Joyce's fascination with dream analysis, Stephen's connection to the mysterious Akasic record, Dermot's own experience with slippery time, the location of the "street of harlots" in Dublin, how Leopold Bloom and Haroun al-Raschid are connected, Orientalism, almosting, and prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation.You can hear our episode about translating Finnegans Wake into Japanese here. Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe! On the Blog:Decoding Dedalus: Haroun al-RaschidIn the Jakes with Mr. Bloom Social Media:Facebook|TwitterSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:iTunes| Google Play Music| Stitcher Media Mentioned in this Episode:Orientalism, Edward SaidFurther Reading:Bowen, Z. (1998). All in a Night's Entertainment: The Codology of Haroun al Raschid, the "Thousand and One Nights," Bloomusalem/Baghdad, the Uncreated Conscience of the Irish Race, and Joycean Self-Reflexivity. James Joyce Quarterly,35(2/3), 297-307. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25473907Budgen, F. (1972). James Joyce and the making of Ulysses, and other writings. London: Oxford University Press.Burgess, A. (1968). ReJoyce. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.Carver, C. (1978). James Joyce and the Theory of Magic. James Joyce Quarterly, 15(3), 201-214. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476132Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press.Gilbert, S. (1955). James Joyce’s Ulysses: a study. New York: Vintage Books.McCarroll, D. (1969). Stephen's Dream---And Bloom's. James Joyce Quarterly, 6(2), 174-176. Retrieved fromhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/25486761Walcott, W. (1971). Notes by a Jungian Analyst on the Dreams in "Ulysses". James Joyce Quarterly, 9(1), 37-48. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25486942 Music:

Melvyn Bragg and guests Roy Foster, Jeri Johnson and Katherine Mullin discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing up in Catholic Ireland.Many novelists choose their own young life as the subject for their first book. But very few have subjected themselves to the intense self-scrutiny of the great Irish novelist James Joyce. In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, published in 1916, Joyce follows his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, from babyhood to young adulthood. He takes us from Stephen wetting the bed, through a teenage visit to a prostitute, and on through religious terrors to the prospect of freedom. When it was published, the book met with shock at its graphic honesty. Joyce shows Stephen wrestling with the pressures of his family, his Church and his nation. Yet this was far from being a straightforward youthful tirade. Joyce's novel is also daringly experimental, taking us deep into Stephen's psyche. And since its publication almost a century ago, it has had a huge influence on novelists across the world.With: Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History and Fellow of Hertford College, OxfordJeri Johnson, Senior Fellow in English at Exeter College, OxfordKatherine Mullin, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds.