Scarica Ulysses di James Joyce e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! ULYSSES – James Joyce Circumstances of publication. Ulysses first came out in Paris in 1922. The story of its publication is interesting. Serialization was begun in the “American Little Rewiev” in 1918, but then was stopped because the novel was found obscene. For the same reason it was turned down by the Hogarth Press, the publishing house owned by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It was through the efforts of Sylvia Beach, the owner of the famous “Shakespeare & Co. Bookshop” in Paris, that the novel was eventually published. In England, however, “Ulysses” was banned for obscenity until 1936. The epic method. The wanderings and tribulation of the epic hero, his adventures through different realms and seas and his final return home to his wife are used in “Ulysses” as a parallel to the events in the life of common men and women in modern Dublin. Joyce, however, uses the epic model to stress the lack of heroism, of ideals, of love and trust in the modern world: the epic structure thus becomes a mirror in which to reflect the modern waste land. Together with Eliot’s “Waste Land”, “Ulysses” is one of the greatest examples of the reworking of myth in modernist literature. Issues and themes. - The events of an ordinary life seen from the inside pf the character’s mind. - Ancient myth as a structure for the modern novel - Lack of heroism, love and trust in the modern world - “Stream-of-consciousness” technique. The story. LEOPOLD BLOOM. “Ulysses” tells the story of a day – June 16, 1904 – in the life of Leopold Bloom, a Dubliner of Jewish origin who works as an advertising agent. He is the Ulysses of the title, and wanders about the streets of Dublin just as Homer’s Ulysses wandered about the Mediterranean. But what happens to Bloom is, however, far less heroic; it is, in fact, quite banal and common: He gets up, goes to a Turkish bath, attends the funeral of a friend, pays a visit to his newspaper office, has lunch, wanders about for a while, goes to a library, buys things, sees some acquaintances and meets other people, goes to a pub, sits at sunset on a beach (where he is excited by a young girl), visits a hospital, ends up in a brothel where at midnight he meets Stephen Daedalus and takes him home with him. STEPHEN DEDALUS. Stephen Dedalus is the central character of the first part of “Ulysses”. He is a sensitive young man with literary ambitions who feels frustrated by Irish provincial life. At the beginning of the novel we see him going about Dublin in search of a house . He is also in search of a father figure, which he eventually finds in Bloom. Homeless and fatherless, he corresponds to Telemachus, Ulysses’ son. MOLLY BLOOM. Molly, Bloom’s wife, is the central character of the last part of the novel. She corresponds to Ulysses’ wife Penelope but, unlike her, Molly is a sensuous woman who is unfaithful to her husband. The novel ends with her famous stream-of-consciousness monologue as she lies awake in bed thinking of her past and present life. Joyce’s “stream-of-consciousness” To convey the life of an individual in a single day, and in the absence of a dramatic plot, Joyce chose to give the minutest details of that day and especially the characters’ process of thinking. The technical innovation here was the adoption of the stream-of-consciousness’ technique, a difficult prose style which does away with syntactical and grammatical connectives and juxtaposes disparate and apparently incongruous images, in the attempt to show the chaotic flow of thoughts in the human mind. Some of the best passages of “Ulysses” are distinguished by the
