Five Favorite Fictional Mothers
Happy Mother’s Day! Sure, it’s a marketing scam, but we all love moms, right? Fascinating moms populate literary fiction, and there’s no shortage of great baddies, evil stepmothers, and distant...
View ArticleWilliam Gaddis on James Joyce
William Gaddis on James Joyce (via/more): I recall a most ingenious piece in a Wisconsin quarterly some years ago in which The Recognitions’ debt to Ulysses was established in such minute detail I was...
View ArticleFive Favorite Fictional Mothers
Happy Mother’s Day! Sure, it’s a marketing scam, but we all love moms, right? Fascinating moms populate literary fiction, and there’s no shortage of great baddies, evil stepmothers, and distant...
View ArticleBlah Blah Bloomsday
How to read Ulysses A list of Irish heroes (from “The Cyclops” episode of Ulysses) “Words,” a page from one of Joyce’s notebooks for Ulysses: Another page of Joyce’s notes, plus links to more James...
View ArticleDownload RTÉ’s Superb Audio Production of James Joyce’s Ulysses
James Joyce’s Ulysses might seem like a prohibitively difficult book, but it’s not as hard to read as its reputation suggests. There are any number of strategies for tackling the great tome (although...
View ArticleMolly’s Suitors (Ulysses)
If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term...
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If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term...
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