The Circe episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses is a jeweled phantasmagoria; and it’s filled with incredible inventories, including one where Bloom’s “bodyguard distribute[s] Maundy money, commemoration medals, loaves and fishes, temperance badges, expensive Henry Clay cigars, free cowbones for soup, rubber preservatives in sealed envelopes tied with gold thread, butter scotch, pineapple rock, billets doux [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ulysses’
The World’s Twelve Worst Books?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Circe, James Joyce, John Madera, The World's Twelve Worst Books, Ulysses on June 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Water, Mater, and Other Matters: A Review of Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, James Joyce, John Madera, Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water, Ulysses on June 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We Know Best What’s Nearest (Living Art Backwards)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Céline, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Jackie Wang, James Joyce, Jonathan Franzen, Kurt Vonnegut, Lydia Davis, Symbolist poetry, Thomas Pynchon, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Ulysses on December 13, 2010 | 28 Comments »
A quick follow-up to Tim’s post here, which was itself in response to Jackie Wang’s post here. Wang had asked: Do you feel a duty to read and acknowledge your literary, theoretical, and musical foremothers? I’d argue that most people have no idea who their artistic forebears are. For example: students tell me all the [...]
The Big Other Interview #43: Kane X. Faucher
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dr. Catastrophe, Enigmatic Ink, Kane X. Faucher, Martin Luther, Ulysses, Will Self on September 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Kane X. Faucher is a literary madman: part Hunter S. Thompson transplanted to the Great White North and part deft academic theorist in the mode of Marshall McCluhan. Faucher is everywhere at once: he’s present as a sort of pixilated specter as I write this, and he’s the implied author and mock reader of the [...]
James Joyce Twitters, Too.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Twitter, Ulysses on July 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Unlike most written twitterings, Joyce’s is actually worth the time. From Ulysses: THE KISSES (warbling) Leo! (twittering) Icky Icky micky sticky for Leo! (cooing) Coo coocoo! Yummyyum, Womwom! (warbling) Big comebig! Pirouette! Leopopold! (twittering) Leeolee! (warbling) O Leo! (They rustle, flutter upon his garments, alight, bright giddy flecks, silvery sequins.)
The Dominant and the Longue Durée
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annales School, Ben Marcus, Bob Perelman, Brian McHale, Brom, Dick Tracy, fantasy, Fernand Braudel, Frank Frazetta, Jen Bervin, Ken Edwards, Language poetry, longue durée, Modernism, opera, parataxis, postmodernism, Roman Jakobson, Romanticism, Ron Silliman, Shakespeare, Shrek, sonnet, Stephen Moore, the dominant, The Lord of the Rings, The New Sentence, Ulysses, Wordsworth, Yury Tynyanov, Yvor Winters on March 6, 2010 | 23 Comments »
It’s a very familiar story: Romanticism began in 1798 and ended in 1900, when it was replaced by Modernism. …Although maybe it wasn’t replaced until 1901; it must have taken a while back then, in those days before cellular phones and email, to “get the memo,” as we say today. How long did it really [...]
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