Ep. 124 - RHYMES AND REASONS

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Topics in this episode include Dublin journalism minutiae, pallindromes, Lenehan’s spoonerisms, the sad history behind the real-life inspiration for Professor MacHugh, the return of Stephen Dedalus’ extremely erudite daydreams, Stephen punches up Douglas Hyde’s poem, poetic meter and foot, rhyme and rhythm, the nightmare of history, Joyce’s love of Dante, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Francesca and Paolo’s eternal damnation, a secret wind motif, Kelly and Dermot attempt to speak Italian, interlinguistic puns, and the oriflamme.

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The Oriflamme

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Further Reading:

1. Bowen, Z. (1974). Musical allusions in the works of James Joyce: Early poetry through Ulysses. Albany: State University of New York Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y9erlwtw  

2. Day, R. (1980). How Stephen wrote his vampire poem. James Joyce Quarterly, 17(2), 183-197. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476277  

3. Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. Oxford University Press.

4. Ellmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/2015.65767.Ulysses-On-The-Liffey_djvu.txt  

5. Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vy6j4tk  

6. Jokinen, Anniina. "The Oriflamme." Luminarium Encyclopedia. Retrieved from http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/oriflamme.htm  

7. Mikics, D. (1990). History and the Rhetoric of the Artist in “Aeolus.” James Joyce Quarterly, 27(3), 533–558. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25485060  

8. REYNOLDS, M. T. (1993). DANTE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF JOYCE’S MODERNISM. Lectura Dantis, 12, 75–92. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44806515  

9. Slade, C. (1976). The Dantean Journey through Dublin. Modern Language Studies, 6(1), 12–21. https://doi.org/10.2307/3194386  

10. Sullam, S. (2003). Inspiring Dante: The Reasons of Rhyme in Ulysses. Papers on Joyce, 9, 59067. Retrieved from http://www.siff.us.es/iberjoyce/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/6-Inspiring-Dante-Proofed-and-Set1.pdf  

11. Thornton, W. (1968). Allusions in Ulysses: An annotated list. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/ucwq3x7