Ulysses — 16 June 1904 https://archive.org/details/Ulysses-Audiobook http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/old/ulyss10h.htm Ulysses (1922) Novel of Adultery/Crime Fiction — Realism Mythic — Homeric (sub species temporis nostri) Modernist — Modes of representation (particularly consciousness–monologue interieur) Post-Modernist — Experimental (interrogation of presuppositions; cultural; “play”) Modernism ‘Modernism is not so much a thing as a set of responses to problems posed by the condition of modernity’ —Michael H. Whitworth, Ed., Modernism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, p. 3. Modernity Modernity defined in terms of: technology and social and ideological context telephone; telegrams; electric light; train travel; cinema; international cable network for news; radio; mechanised warfare; steam ships • the city and the comforts of modern life • the dominance of ‘instrumental reason’ • Historical events such as WWI and the Holocaust —Michael H. Whitworth, Ed., Modernism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, pp. 5-10. ‘So what was that all about?’ — Spike Milligan Within the arts at least, and among some philosophers, it is, after all, not news that what some regard as the great achievements of European modernity, such things as an urban, cosmopolitan civilization, material prosperity, a methodologically secure, rational grounded science, individual liberty, might also reflect a dangerously naïve optimism, merely class-based interests, or might represent or presuppose disguised forms of repression, or might contribute to a stultifying, boring, even a pointless life. Robert B. Pippin, Modernism as a Philosophical Problem. 1991; Oxford: Blackwell, 1999, p. 2. “Character” as text; intertext; context Leopold Bloom (“Poldy”) 38 years old (married when 23) Father Jewish; Mother English. Canvasser for The Freeman’s Journal (A newspaper with Catholic sympathies). Marion Bloom (“Molly”) 34 years old (married when 19) Father English, Major Tweedy; Mother Jewish, Lareto Lado. Born and grew up in Gibralter. Married Bloom in 1888. Millicent Bloom (“Milly”) 15 years old. Has left home and is working in a photo shop in Mullingar. Rudolph Bloom (“Rudy”) Born 29 December 1893; dies 9 January 1894. (10½ years before 16 June 1904) “Character” as text; intertext; context Hugh Boylan (“Blazes” Boylan) Owns a successful advertising agency. Wealthy. Flashy dresser. Sports promoter, singer and impresario. Stephen Dedalus 22 years old. Aspiring poet and failed medical student returned from Paris and teaching in a school for middle-class boys and living in a Martello Tower in Sandycove with Buck Mulligan (Irish medical student) and Haines (Hibernophile). Gertrude McDowell (“Gerty”) 22 years old. Single niece of the “Citizen” Telemachus (S) Time: 8.00am Scene: Martello Tower, Sandycove. Technique: narrative Telemachus (Hamlet): Stephen Dedalus Antinous (Claudius): Buck Mulligan Mentor: The Milk-woman Nestor (S) Time: 10.00am Scene: A private school for boys in Dalkey Technique: Catechism Nestor: Mr Deasey Pisisatratus: Sargent Helen: Mrs O’Shea Proteus (S) Time: 11.00am Scene: Sandymount Strand Technique: monologue (male) Menelaus: Kevin Egan Megapenthus: Cocklepickers 7 Eccles Street Calypso (B&M) Time: 8.00am Scene: 7 Eccles Street, Dublin Technique: narrative (mature) Calypso: The nymph [the print over the Blooms’ bed] The Recall: Dlugacz Ithaca: Zion Lotus-Eaters (B) Time: 10.00am Scene: Dublin streets indirectly to Westland Row Post Office Technique: narcissism Ulysses (no parallels in schema) Nausicaa (Compare with Nausicaa episode) Hades (B) Time: 11.00am Scene: Prospect cemetery in Glasnevin Technique: incubism The four rivers of Hades: (Styx, Acheron, Cocytus, Pyriphlegethon) as The Dodder, the Grand and Royal Canals, The Dodder) Elpenor: Paddy Dignam Aeolus (B) Time: 12.00 noon Scene: The newspaper offices of The Freeman’s Journal (and The Evening Telegraph) Technique: Rhetoric Aeolus: Crawford Incest: Journalism Floating Island: the Press Lestrygonians Lestrygonians: Consumerism and Consumption in the self-consuming city Down from the cliffs they flung great rocks a man could hardly hoist And a ghastly shattering din rose up from all the ships— Men in their death-cries, hulls smashed to splinters— They speared the crew like fish … —Odyssey, X: 132-5. Corporeality Eating Drinking Advertising Lestrygonians (B) Time: 1.00pm Scene: Davy Byrne’s pub Technique: peristaltic Sense of the episode: dejection Scylla and Charybdis (S & B) Time: 2.00pm Scene: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street Technique: dialectic The Rock (Scylla): Arristotle, dogma, Stratford The Whirlpool (Charybdis): Plato, Mysticism, London Ulysses: Socrates, Jesus, Shakespeare The Wandering Rocks (B&S) Time: 3.00pm Scene: The streets of Dublin Technique: labyrinth Sense of episode: The hostile environment The episode is composed on nineteen sections, which are interrupted by interpolated actions that are temporally simultaneous but spatially remote from the central action in which the interpolation occurs. Sirens (B&B) Time: 4.00pm Scene: The Concert room of the Ormond Hotel, 8 Ormond Quay Upper Technique: Fuga per canone Sirens: The barmaids (Miss Douce; Miss Kennedy) Isle: The Bar Cyclops (B) Time: 5.00pm Scene: The Tavern, Barney Kienan’s pub, 8–10 Little Britain Street Technique: gigantism Noman: I Stake: cigar Challenge: Apotheosis Nauiscaa (B) Time: 8.00pm Scene: Sandymount Strand (episode 3) Technique: tumescence, detumescence Phaeacia: The Star of the Sea Church Nausicaa: Gerty McDowell The projected mirage (Advertising; The fog in which Athena cloaks Odysseus) Oxen of the Sun (B&S) Time: 10.00pm Scene: The National Maternity Hospital, 29-31 Holles Street Technique: embryonic development Trinacria: The Hospital Lampote and Phaethusa: The nurses Helios: Doctors Oxen: fertility Crime: Fraud [in the formal sense of breaking a vow] Circe (B&S) Time: 12.00 midnight Scene: The Monto, Mrs Cohen’s Brothel, 82 Tyrone Street Lower Technique: hallucination Circe: Bella Meaning: antropofago – man eating or antrophobia – mobid sensation of angst when amongs people Eumaeus (B&S) Time: 1.00am Scene: The cabman’s shelter just under the Loop Line bridge, just west of the Custom House Technique: narrative (old) Eumaeus: Skin-the-Goat Ulysses Pseudangelos: The sailor D.B. Murphy Melanthious: Corley Ithaca (B&S) “” (S.M.P) Time: 2.00am Scene: Bloom’s house, 7 Eccles Street Technique: catechism (impersonal) Antinous: Buck Mulligan Eurymachus: Blazes Boylan Bow: reason Suitors: scruples [minute quantities] Penelope For the four 4 years more I have of life up to 35 no Im what am I at all Ill be 33 in September A card Unfurnished Apartments slipped from the sash and fell. A card Unfurnished Apartments reappeared on the windowsash of number 7 Eccles street. 7 Eccles Street … Im sure Im not going to take in lodgers off the street for him if he takes a gasebo of a house like this … Penelope (M&B) “yes” Time: eternity ∞ Scene: the bed Technique: monologue (female) Penelope: earth Web (The shroud that Penelope weaves for Laertes): movement.