Ep. 55 - Cranly’s Arm

Who wore it better - Carrie Bradshaw or Stephen Dedalus?

James Joyce (right) with John Francis Byrne (center) and George Clancy (c. 1900)

Kelly helps Dermot remember why he drew James Joyce wearing red, killer heels. Topics include subtle Homeric correspondences, Dermot’s allegiance to Mr. Kipling’s cakes, Stéphane Mallarmé’s ‘L'après-midi d'un faune’ (The afternoon of a faun), more ire directed at that mocker Buck Mulligan, Stephen’s tiny feet, Stephen’s erstwhile friendship with Cranly, Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, John Francis Byrne, Cranly’s feelings for Stephen, Wilde’s love that dare not speak its name, themes of masculinity and male friendships, Senator David Norris on gay themes in Ulysses and Dedalus/Mulligan slash fiction.

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Kelly helps Dermot remember why he drew James Joyce wearing red, killer heels.

Leonard Bernstein conducts Claude Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun - extract from "The Unanswered Question", Boston Symphony Orchestra Check my c...

Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

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Media Mentioned in this Episode:

“L'après-midi d'un faune” (“The afternoon of a faun”), Stéphane Mallarmé

“Who goes with Fergus?”, W.B. Yeats

“Two Loves”, Lord Alfred Douglas

He was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in Ireland and had been serving in Seanad Éireann since 1987. A founder of the Campaign for...

Further Reading:

Carosone, M.  (2017, Jun 19). Bending instead of queering Ulysses: A gay male reading of James Joyce’s novel. HuffPost. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vobhxq9

Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Joyce, S. (1958). My brother’s keeper: James Joyce’s early years. New York: The Viking Press.

Kimball, J. (1987). Love and Death in "Ulysses": "Work Known to All Men". James Joyce Quarterly,24(2), 143-160. Retrieved fromhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/25476793

Lamos, C. (1994). Signatures of the Invisible: Homosexual Secrecy and Knowledge in "Ulysses". James Joyce Quarterly, 31(3), 337-355. Retrieved fromwww.jstor.org/stable/25473571

Norris, D. (1994). The "Unhappy Mania" and Mr. Bloom's Cigar: Homosexuality in the Works of James Joyce. James Joyce Quarterly,31(3), 357-373. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/25473572