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OK, maybe it’s because I’m becoming an old guy but this morning, as I’m working from my home computer, and there was a bunch of shouting in the street from my noisy neighbor, I’m thinking of myself “Jesus, I wish that guy would just shut the fuck up.“ And then it occurred to me – as Joyce describes God as a noise or a shout in the street, is the interpretation that he just wants that noise to go away?
I'm trying to track down a source but struggling.
I remember reading somewhere that Bloom's breakfast is more authentically Irish than what is today called Irish Breakfast because offals were more commonly consumed in Ireland after the Famine, but for the life of me I can't recall which book this argument came from. It was on the first page of an essay in a collection (possibly on Joyce), but beyond that I'm drawing a blank.
Does this ring a bell?
Just wanted to show off my edition of Ulysses. It's published by Everyman's Library. Sewn binding, acid free paper and a ribbon bookmark. I haven't read any James Joyce before but I've seen this book be talked about as one of the best ever written, so I'm excited to start it eventually. I'm no amateur to classic literature or challenging books, so even though I know it has a reputation for being challenging, I'm not too worried.
I’m confused as to how each printing of Ulysses matters, some people like the edited Gabler version better, and some hate it. I have the 2012 Simon and Brown version and the Gabler version, but I don’t know if I should read one of these two or a different copy, or if I’m just overthinking it. I was thinking I’d ask people who know more about it than I do.
Maybe a little early, but was wondering if anyone knows what will be happening in nyc for bloomsday this year. Seems like Bloom's Tavern & Ulysses' Bar do something every year. Was wondering if anyone here could speak to a previous year's experience.
Hey its my first time making a serious attempt at finnegans wake. I have the skeleton key, annotations to finnegans wake and a third guide that slips my mind...the other famous one I think 😂
Do you recommend reading the guides along with the book or just read the book first? Or maybe a guide first? I love the work of Joseph Campbell so I thought maybe skeleton key first could work.
TL; DR
Glasheen all but trashes ‘helps’ on FW like Campbell’s Skeleton Key because she alleges they keep readers from reading FW itself.
Adeline Glasheen’s tireless diversion-turned-career in crashing the Ivory Tower and building her own legacy within FW scholarship is impressive enough (her academic credentials stop at MA in English), and no one denies she was an organized and insightful private scholar, the likes of which are sadly diminishing among the ‘Learnéd lay readership.’ Besides which she enviously kept up correspondence with a wide array of fellow travelers from Thornton Wilder to Hugh Kenner, and her correspondence with the latter have now been published for those interested.
These prefatory observations are to contextualize an interesting observation she makes in the introduction to the FW Third Census, already acknowledging the indispensable nature of Hart’s concordance, here directed at Campbell’s Skeleton Key: she all but laments the fact that works like that, among other works of ‘decoding’ or summarising (as far as could even be done) do a disservice to the reading public, because, perhaps not unlike Cliff’s, Spark’s, or Monarch’s, NOTES keep the reader away from engaging with the text itself. IOW, those turning to Campbell for a ‘synopsis’ have now (she says in so many words ) accepted this to be the way forward without the work of engaging with FW directly. Added to this is that they (readers of Campbell) are also getting Campbell’s tendentious (my word, not hers) approach to isolating certain themes and motifs that fit into his larger vision of how μύθος (mythos in the broadest sense) actually fit together and ‘function’ synchronically, concepts which have met their share of criticism in and outside of academia.
The open question is, does Glasheen make a valid point and should works like JC’s Skeleton Key be jettisoned by those looking for something other than ‘one arbitrary reading decided upon by Joseph Campbell’ at the expense of a text that specifically encourages holding multivalency of meaning?
As far removed I am from the academy at this point it’s hard to shake its argot, so I hope this summary hasn’t been as muddled
as I fear it might be.
Does anyone know how I (NYC, NY) can listen to this radio adaptation of Ulysses? I heard bits of it, and it's brilliant, but I'm having trouble finding the entire production. Grateful for any insight on this. Thanks.
I'm an American (25 F) PhD student planning some solo travel for the summer, and it's always been my dream to visit Dublin! Is the Bloomsday festival worth it (and is it fun to go solo)? It sounds so fun!