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The Beginnings - from Rasik! Chandra and the List: Please go to the following website for Joyce's Schema for Ulysses in Stuart Gilbert's 'Ulysses' in 1930: http://www.2street.com/joyce/etext/schema.html On my computer, I have only been able to produce the following abbreviated copy in a different format; the table is missing. Joyce's Schema for Ulysses: Title / Scene / Hour / Organ / Art / Colour / Symbol / Technic 1 Telemachus / The Tower / 8 a.m. / Theology / White, gold / Heir / Narrative (young) 2 Nestor /The School /10 a.m. / History/ Brown /Horse/ Catechism (personal) 3 Proteus / The Strand / 11 a.m. / Philology/ Green /Tide /Monologue (male) 4 Calypso /The House/8 a.m./ Kidney/ Economics/ Orange/ Nymph/ Narrative (mature) 5 Lotus-eaters/ The Bath/ 10 a.m./ Genitals/ Botany/ Chemistry/ Eucharist/Narcissism 6 Hades/ The Graveyard /11 a.m./ Heart /Religion/ White, black /Caretaker/Incubism 7 Aeolus /The Newspaper/ 12 noon/ Lungs /Rhetoric/ Red /Editor Enthymemic 8 Lestrygonians/ The Lunch /1 p.m./ Esophagus/ Architecture/ Constables/ Peristaltic 9 Scylla and Charybdis /The Library /2 p.m./ Brain/ Literature/ Stratford, London/ Dialectic 10 Wandering Rocks/ The Streets /3 p.m./ Blood, Mechanics / Citizens/Labyrinth 11 Sirens /The Concert Room /4 p.m. /Ear/ Music / Barmaids /Fuga per canonem 12 Cyclops /The Tavern/ 5 p.m. /Muscle /Politics /Fenian Gigantism 13 Nausicaa /The Rocks /8 p.m. /Eye, Nose/Painting /Grey, blue/ Virgin /Tumescence, detumescence 14 Oxen of the Sun /The Hospital/ 10 p.m. /Womb /Medicine/ White/ Mothers Embryonic development 15 Circe /The Brothel /12 midnight/ Locomotor /Apparatus/ Magic / Whore Hallucination 16 Eumaeus /The Shelter /1 a.m. /Nerves /Navigation/ Sailors /Narrative (old) 17 Ithaca /The House/ 2 a.m. /Skeleton/ Science / Comets /Catechism (impersonal) 18 Penelope/ The Bed / Flesh / Earth/Monologue (female) The basic division of Ulysses in 18 Chapters (all with Chapter names) does not appear in all editions of Ulysses. For convenience, I propose to use the 1992 Penguin paperback edition for our discussions. There is a lot of controversy about various texts and different editions of Ulysses. For our purposes, I think, sticking to the Penguin Edition (moderately priced, easily available) will be the best thing to do. My edition has 933 pages. The first Chapter called "Telemachus" (in the texs with named chapters - later dropped, I believe, by Joyce himself) runs from Page 1 to 28, ending with the word "Usurper" all by itself in a separate paragraph. This edition has an introduction by Declan Kibberd. In the Introduction, the Schema referred to above is reproduced on pge xxiii. I have the following books re Joyce on my desk: 1. Penguin edition of Ulysses,first published by Bodley Head in Great Britain in 1960, in the U.S.A. by Random House in 1961. 2. Everyman hardcover editon of Ulysses, resetting the 1960 Bodley Head/Modern Library text. 3. James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann, a comprehensive literarry biography by an eminent authority on Joyce nad Irish literature. 4. Ulysses Notes for students, published by Coles in Canada. 5. Ulysses Annotated, notes for James Joyce's Ulysses, by Don Gifford with Robert J. Seidman, Revised and Expanded Edition. I have found this contains detailed references and explanations of lots of difficult material /phrases/ allusions in the text. 6. Allusions in Ulysses, by Weldon Thornton, an Annotated list. 7. A Reader's Guide to James Joyce by William York Tindall. There are any number of websites, discussion groups on the net on James Joyce, which you can discover by surfing. There is, I believe, Jmaes Joyce for beginners in comic strips, also a James Joyce for Dummies. If you are not already frightened out of your wits by the above, the first thing to do as far as Ulysses is concerned is to familiarize yourself with the Greek myth narrated in Homer's 'The Odyssey'. A brief account of the parallel part of Homer's Odyssey on Chapter 1 can be summarized as: Telemachus is dismayed and disgusted at the behaviour of the suitors, who usurp the palace of the missing Ulysses, to court his mother Penelope. The Goddess Athena advises him to take ship and seek news of his father. This he determines to do. I will stop there for tyhe moment. Next time I will start with some general introductory remarks on Ulysses nad then move on to Chapter 1. Let us have as much feedback as possible, from all of you. Many members of this list have spoken eloquently before, but are silent lately. Perhaps I can ask someone to come forward and give a basic summary of the story of the Odyssey? -- Rasik Shah Addition: I have seen the video version (in sdix video cassettes). Yhe lectures are excellent, specially the one explaining Joyce's theory of art (as described in The Portrait) and the myhtological basis of Joycean writing. Please follow the links to the store on the "In Bloom" site, if you have to. If anyone finds out about the videos being vailable for sale, lety me know. |