Ep. 172 - Lapwing

Agenbite of Lapwing.

Topics in this episode include Shakespeare’s coat of arms, the significance of Cassiopeia to Stephen’s Shakespeare theory, the auspicious stars heralding the births of Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and Rudy Bloom, Stephen’s Hamlet dialectic fully unravels, the real Dedalus of myth, the charge of adultery against Susanna Shakespeare Hall, lapwings, a lapwing mentioned in Hamlet, the lapwing’s survival strategy, medieval slander against the lapwing, what the lapwing has in common with Agenbite of Inwit, William Blake on the lapwing, Wandering Aengus of the birds, augury, and Stephen’s gift of prophecy.

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Further Reading: 

  1. Adams, R. M. (1962). Surface and symbol: The consistency of James Joyce’s Ulysses. New York: Oxford University Press.

  2. Beebe, M. (1956). James Joyce: Barnacle Goose and Lapwing. PMLA, 71(3), 302–320. https://www.jstor.org/stable/460705

  3. 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

  4. Geckle, G. L. (1969). Stephen Dedalus as Lapwing: A Symbolic Center of “Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 6(2), 104–114. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25486753

  5. Gilbert, S. (1930). James Joyce’s Ulysses: a study. New York: Vintage Books. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124373/page/n3/mode/2up

  6. Littmann, M. E., & Schweighauser, C. A. (1965). Astronomical Allusions, Their Meaning and Purpose, in “Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 2(4), 238–246. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25486518

  7. McElroy, J. (2020). Ornithic Joyce — An Egregiously Preliminary Round of Avian Observations. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 109(433), 59–69. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.35939/studiesirishrev.109.433.0059

  8. 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

  9. Schwarz, D. (2004). Reading Joyce’s Ulysses. Palgrave Macmillan. 

  10. Terrinoni, E. (2007). Occult Joyce: The hidden in Ulysses. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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