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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