Ep. 174 - The Wandering Rocks
Here be dragons.
Topics in this episode include why “Wandering Rocks” is the least Homeric episode of Ulysses, why the name “Wandering Rocks” isn’t quite right, how Jason escaped the Wandering Rocks, how Leopold Bloom is a mightier hero than Odysseus, correspondences for “Wandering Rocks,” the “blind mechanism” of the Wandering Rocks, clockspeed, how to escape the labyrinth, Joyce’s favorite board game, whether or not Joyce would have been a David Bowie fan, traps in “Wandering Rocks,” blood and currency, the precision of “Wandering Rocks,” and re-creating “Wandering Rocks” as street theater.
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Further Reading:
Budgen, F. (1972). James Joyce and the making of Ulysses, and other writings. London: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AMF2PZFZHI2WND8U
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
Gabler, H. W. (2018). Structures of Memory and Orientation: Steering a Course Through Wandering Rocks. In Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and other Essays (1st ed., pp. 81–110). Open Book Publishers. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv8j3xd.7
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
Hart, C. (1974). Wandering Rocks. In C. Hart & D. Hayman (eds.), James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical essays (181-216). Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/wu2y7mg
Homer, translated by Palmer., G.H. (1912). The Odyssey. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications.
Kenner, H. (1987). Ulysses. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Osteen, M. (1995). The economy of Ulysses: making both ends meet. New York: Syracuse University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yycf2ar5
Schwarz, D. (2004). Reading Joyce’s Ulysses. Palgrave Macmillan.