Ep. 56 - Fourworded Wavespeech

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The divine and the profane live side by side in Ulysses. In this episode, we discuss what the heck Cock Lake is, why Stephen pees on the strand at the end of “Proteus”, the themes of generation and corruption in “Proteus”, the artistic merits of excrement, urination as an expression of freedom and creativity, Mother Grogan and her teapot, endowing waves with speech and animating the natural world, onomatopoeia, the rolling tide, St. Ambrose and the groaning of Creation, Ariel’s Song and The Tempest, and Dermot’s anti-Shakespeare propaganda.

The divine and the profane live side by side in Ulysses. In this episode, we discuss what the heck Cock Lake is, why Stephen pees on the strand at the end of "Proteus", the themes of generation and corruption in "Proteus", the artistic merits of excrement, urination as an expression of freedom and creativity, Mother Grogan and her teapot, endowing waves with speech and animating the natural world, onomatopoeia, the rolling tide, St.

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Media Mentioned in this Episode:

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathon Hoag, Richard Heinlein

Joyce’s Trieste notebook

Story: The Tempest Contemporary Story: The kids attempt to put on their own production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. I DO NOT OWN THIS!!!

Further Reading:

1. Boheemen, C. v. (1992). The Languages of Joyce: Selected Papers from the 11th International James Joyce Symposium Venice 1988. Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y2dxfgnj 

2. CONNOR, S. (1994). 'JIGAJIGA...YUMMYYUM...PFUIIIIIII!...BBBBBLLLLLBLBLBLBLOBSCHB!': "CIRCE'S" VENTRILOQUY. European Joyce Studies, 3, 93-142. Retrieved November 24, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/44871030

3. Ellmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/page/n39 

4. Feshbach, S. (2007). Stephen’s Wavespeech. James Joyce Quarterly 1(3), 557-558.  doi:10.1353/jjq.2008.0004.

5. 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 

6. Kenner, H. (1987). Ulysses. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?id=Ajlz5rzPBOkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false 

7. McArthur, M. (1986). "Signs on a White Field": Semiotics and Forgery in the "Proteus" Chapter of Ulysses. ELH,53(3), 633-652. doi:10.2307/2873043. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/2873043.