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The book as image demands these glosses as registers of their meaning.
(Richard Ellmann justifying his high-level, abstract, structural analysis, page 60)
Almost everything is coupled.
(Ellmann’s habit of defining binaries and dichotomies on every page, p.72)
Joyce liked to ...
The more we know of someone, the harder it is to say what he is about, he is about so many things…
(page 21)
Few writers have been more intensely, intimately autobiographical.
(p.171)
Hugh Kenner (1923 to 2003) was a Canadian academic who spent his time teaching at universities in the Unit...
Scattered, far from definitive, observations about sex, sounds and characters fumbling for the right word, in James Joyce’s epic modernist novel ‘Ulysses’.
Here’s a reminder of the 18 chapters of ‘Ulysses’ and their Homeric titles i.e. the episodes from Homer’s Odyssey which they are based on or reference. (Always worth emphasising that these titles don’t actually appe...
Beatriz González (1932 to 2026) was born and worked in Colombia, South America, where she became a major artistic force. She is known for transforming images people encounter every day – newspaper and magazine photos and imagery on everyday products – into big brightly coloured and ‘naive’ or simply designed paintings.
—Wait a moment, professor MacHugh said, raising two quiet claws. We mustn’t be led away by words, by sounds of words.
(Chapter 7, Aeolus)
—Shite and onions!
(Simon Dedalus in the same chapter)
Obviously not complete, far from complete, and probably done better on a thousand other websites, but these a...