Ep. 133 - Kino's 11/- Trousers
What is the parallax of Aldebaran?
A rowboat in the Liffey, 28 January 2023
Topics in this episode include gulls, Simon Dedalus, Little Chandler, Leopold Bloom’s poetic impulse, Leopold Bloom’s philosophy of advertising, the secret ingredient in Epps’ Cocoa, the supremacy of Kino’s 11/- Trousers over Plumtree’s Potted Meat, Victorian advertising styles, Howard Bridgewater’s theory of advertising, Dr. Hy Frank’s remedy for the clap, numerology, Chris Callinan, the true meaning of K. 11, the parallax of Aldebaran, Lenehan being just the worst, the number 11 and George Mesias’ suits
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Further Reading:
Ads from 1890; Scanned image and text by Simon Cooke. (Image Source)
Adams, R.M. (1974). Hades. In C. Hart & D. Hayman (eds.), James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical essays (91-114). Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/wu2y7mg
Alonso, S. (2018). Advertising in “Ulysses.” European Joyce Studies, 26, 107–129. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44871444
Del Río Molina, B. (2006). From Iconophagy to Anthropophagy: Cannibalising Images in Ulysses. Papers on Joyce, 12, 25-43. Retrieved from http://www.siff.us.es/iberjoyce/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/6-PoJ12-Benigno.pdf
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
Gunn, D. P. (1996). Beware of Imitations: Advertisement as Reflexive Commentary in Ulysses. Twentieth Century Literature, 42(4), 481–493. https://doi.org/10.2307/441878
Hastings, P. (2013). Leopold Bloom’s “Curriculum Vitae.” James Joyce Quarterly, 50(3), 824–829. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24598582
Osteen, M. (1995). The economy of Ulysses: making both ends meet. New York: Syracuse University Press. Retrieved fromhttps://tinyurl.com/yycf2ar5