Ep. 159: AEIOU

Stephen Dedalus beats debt with this one simple trick!

Topics incluce: “Scylla and Charybdis’” dialectic as metacommentary on Ulysses as a whole, the perils of offending the gods of the sea, Stephen takes offense to Æ, Stephen’s many debts, the artistic value of green room gossip, contrasting Æ and Mr. Deasy, Stephen as the ship of Theseus, Aristotelian logic destroying Stephen’s sill loophole, Fr. Conmee, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, form of forms, entelechy, and many, many tangents.

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Further Reading:

  1. 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 

  2. Kellogg, R. (1974). Scylla and Charybdis. In C. Hart & D. Hayman (eds.), James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical essays (147-179). Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/wu2y7mg

  3. O’Rourke, F. (2005). Allwisest stagyrite: Joyce’s quotations from Aristotle. Dublin: National Library of Ireland. Retrieved from https://www.academia.edu/9861806/Allwisest_Stagyrite._Joyces_Quotations_from_Aristotle 

  4. O’Rourke, F. (2016). Aristotelian Interpretations. Newbridge: Irish Academic Press. 

  5. Osteen, M. (1990). The Intertextual Economy in “Scylla and Charybdis.” James Joyce Quarterly, 28(1), 197–208. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25485125 

  6. Paterakis, D. T. (1972). Mananaan MacLir in Ulysses. Éire-Ireland (quarterly journal of the Irish American Cultural Institute, St. Paul, Minnesota) Vol. VII, 3. Retrieved from https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5523ffe4e4b012b2c4ebd8fc/t/56ddbc1ea3360c8bedd3ec05/1457372190595/Manannan+MacLir+in+Ulysses.pdf

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