Dislocation and Exile in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Dr
Cla
ire L
ynch
, cl
air
e.lynch
@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!