Ep. 154 - Folly. Persist.
Satan comes forward a sinkapace.
Milton Dictating to his Daughters, Henry Fuseli, 1794
Topics in this episode include Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister, Goethe’s thoughts on Hamlet translated through Thomas Lyster, Elizabethan dances, Sir Toby Belch, Monsieur de la Palice and a hilarious French pun, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Stephen’s six brave medicals, Marie Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan, Cranly, Medical Dick and Medical Davy, betrayal, W.B.’s shining seven, the significance of the number seven, Malacoda’s trumpet, Dante, extended Wicklow imagery, Satanic imagery in the works of Joyce, Stephen’s Luciferian impulses, Diablous in Musica, and Stephen’s ultimate rejection of Satan despite his declaration of “Non serviam.”
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Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel, 1847
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Further Reading:
Crowley, R. (2006). "His Dark Materials": Joyce's "Scribblings" and the Notes for 'Circe' in the National Library of Ireland. Genetic Joyce Studies. Retrieved from https://www.geneticjoycestudies.org/articles/GJS6/GJS6Crowley
DEL GRECO LOBNER, C. (1993). “Sounds are Impostures”: From Patronymics to Dante’s “Trombetta.” Joyce Studies Annual, 4, 43–54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26283684
Dorsey, P. (1989). From Hero to Portrait: The De-Christification of Stephen Dedalus. James Joyce Quarterly, 26(4), 505–513. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25484982
Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. Oxford University Press.
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
Hogan, P. C. (1986). Lapsarian Odysseus: Joyce, Milton, and the Structure of “Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 24(1), 55–72. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476777
Pope, C. (2009, May 7). The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli. Victorian Secrets. https://victoriansecrets.co.uk/the-sorrows-of-satan/
Schutte, W. (1957). Joyce and Shakespeare; a study in the meaning of Ulysses. New Haven: Yale University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/joyceshakespeare00schu
Schwarz, D. (2004). Reading Joyce’s Ulysses. Palgrave Macmillan.
Terrinoni, E. (2007). Occult Joyce: The hidden in Ulysses. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.