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AN INTRODUCTION TO ULYSSES, 2016

JOYCE REVISITED---James Joyce and Greek Philosophies Kyrie is a transliteration of Greek Κύριε, vocative case of Κύριος (Kyrios), a common name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy, also called the Kyrie eleison (/ˈkɪərieɪ ɪˈleɪɪsɒn, -sən/; Ancient Greek: Κύριε, ἐλέησον, translit. Kýrie eléēson, lit. 'Lord, have mercy'). as Joyce said:“I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money. Material domination. Domine! Lord! Where is the spirituality? Lord Jesus? Lord Salisbury? A sofa in a westend club. But the Greek! KYRIE ELEISON! *********** WORTH REVISITING METHINKS as this is my favourite connundrum expose of reviewing our philosophical historical past by enjoying this modern twist to it. STARTING WITH James Joyce NOVEL 1904 ULYSSES https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-ulysses Reviews & endorsements '… both fascinating and titillating … deft, well-researched, and fascinating … a rollicking good journey … a series of quite striking intertextual engagements … Even readers without a particular investment in Joyce and his works will find this book useful … often masterful and always witty engagement with Joyce's works … it will make a welcome addition to the libraries of Joyceans and non-Joyceans alike … this is a genuine rarity among critical books: a smart, concise, and engaging text that treats sexuality and scandal with just the right mix of scholarly rigor, native intelligence, and good humour.' Modernism/Modernity 'Katherine Mullin's … book will make any voyeuristic reader of history despair that she has had to wait so long for that pleasure … A concise and accessible text presenting a compelling argument, careful close readings, and equally compelling primary source material, Mullin's work is a rare scholarly pleasure.' Irish Studies Review 'Part and parcel of Mullin's study is a rich documentation of the social purity movement's cultural history …a pleasure to read … represents something rare in Joyce criticism … [and] discovering a neglected strand of meaning and demonstrating how this is 'woven into the fabric of the fiction' … the study offers a rich body of cultural information based on enormously extensive research on the sexual discourses of the time in general and the history of the purity movement in particular … proof of how fruitful in many ways a cultural studies approach to literature can be.' Anglia. Zeitschrift fuer Englische Philologie In James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity, Katherine Mullin offers a richly detailed account of Joyce's lifelong battle against censorship. Through prodigious archival research, Mullin shows Joyce responding to Edwardian ideologies of social purity by accentuating the 'contentious' or 'offensive' elements in his work. The censorious ambitions of the social purity movement, Mullin claims, feed directly into Joyce's writing. Paradoxically, his art becomes dependent on the very forces that seek to constrain and neutralize its revolutionary force. Acutely conscious of the dangers censorship presented to publication, Mullin shows Joyce revenging himself by energetically ridiculing purity campaigns throughout his fiction. Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners all meticulously subvert purity discourse, as Joyce pastiches both the vice crusaders themselves and the imperilled 'Young Persons' they sought to protect. This important book will change the way Joyce is read and offers crucial insights into the sexual politics of Modernism. Provides a valuable reassessment of Joyce's response to censorship and Edwardian popular culture Mullin offers an important historical and cultural context for Anglo-American Modernism This book will be of interest to scholars in literary, cultural, gender and historical studies FOLLOWED BY: https://jamesjoyce.ie/about/james-joyces-life/ http://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/James\_Joyces\_Ulysses Is James Joyce's Ulysses the hardest novel to finish? James Joyce died 75 years ago this week, leaving a lifetime of books beloved by many... and Ulysses, heralded as both the best novel in the English language and the hardest to read. So what do you do if you get stuck? Sian Cain Thu 14 Jan 2016 04.26 AEDTLast modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 23.54 AEDT When James Joyce finished writing Ulysses, he was so exhausted that he didn’t write a line of prose for a year. I can believe it; I needed a nap after reading 40 pages. For the last three months, I’ve glared at its fat, lumpen form on my floor with a vague sense of personal failure. I’ve opened Ulysses twice, determined to finish it, and achieved getting all the way to page 46 (it’s a bit longer than that). I have read so little both times I started that I have never bothered with a bookmark; it seemed too sad flagging such a hollow achievement. Even when staring at cramped pages without absorbing a word, I thought nice thoughts about it: I like the community this book has spawned, its inherent sense of freedom and celebration of all things rude and true. I like that it created a holiday. I like that the anarchic style and language allows for readers to pick and choose how they read it – some recommend skipping chapter three, some recommend reading it only after reading ABOUT it, some recommend reading it mostly aloud – but I still get stuck.At first, it was fun. Ulysses isn’t like anything else I’ve read. There are a plethora of lines that I immediately decided to use on a daily basis, like: “Lend us a loan of your noserag” (“Ho!” thought I, filing it away for “things to say next time I have a cold”) and: “We’ll have a glorious drunk to astonish the druidy druids” (filed away under “things to holler on a night out”). There are a few other “worthy” works of literature I’ve yet to read – including fellow top 10-ers Infinite Jest and War and Peace – but they only spark little pangs of shame that I have not read and/or enjoyed them. I really want to love Ulysses and I feel deeply frustrated that all the while appreciating its uniqueness and its weightiness and its Joyceness, I can’t finish the damn thing.Why do I get stuck? I’m not entirely sure myself. On the ‘Most difficult novels’ list on Goodreads, Joyce takes the top two spots, with Ulysses in top position and Finnegans Wake plodding behind for second place. A lot of the Goodreads top 10 – Moby-Dick, Gravity’s Rainbow – are weighty tomes, but I like big books (and I cannot lie). I think what is holding me hostage to page 46 is the language: the big fat bursts of Chaucerian English, sprinkled with slang and jaunty dialogue that, while entertaining me, is also leaving me a little lost.

The fascination of what's difficult: the adaptive function of difficulty in Ulysses

2017

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