James Joyce

Declan Kiberd

Joyce's experimental masterpiece set a new standard for modernist fiction, pushing the English language past all previous thresholds in its quest to capture a day in the life of an Everyman in turn-of-the-century Dublin. Obliquely borrowing characters and situations from Homer's Odyssey, Joyce takes us on an internal odyssey along the current of thoughts, impressions, and experiences that make up the adventure of living an average day ...

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Ulysses

Rebecca Light

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We each have heads not just of what we have read but, like Stephen, of what we have heard. We think with these borrowed words.

“I want, said Joyce, as we were walking down the Universitätstrasse, 'to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.”

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

From Lawrence, K. R. (2022). “Telemachus.” Refers to Anderson, B. (2006). Imagined Communities. 

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Mulligan and Haines try to solicit Stephen for their imagined communities.

Alawander Bouston 

Through the hush of air a voice sang to them, low, not rain, not leaves in murmur, like no voice of strings of reeds or whatdoyoucallthem dulcimers, touching their still ears with words, still hearts of their each his remembered lives. 

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

Grace Stanger

George and I both know this, but why does it distress him? We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world-sorrow' 

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