Reading Joyce's Ulysses, by Daniel R Schwarz
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Reissued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Reading Joyce's 'Ulysses' includes a new preface taking account of scholarly and critical development since its original publication. It shows how the now important issues of post-colonialism, feminism, Irish Studies and urban culture are addressed within the text, as well as a discussion of how the book can be used by both beginners and seasoned readers. Schwarz not only presents a powerful and original reading of Joyce's great epic novel, but discusses it in terms of a dialogue between recent and more traditional theory. Focusing on what he calls the odyssean reader, Schwarz demonstrates how the experience of reading Ulysses involves responding both to traditional plot and character, and to the novel's stylistic experiments.
Reading Joyce's Ulysses, by Daniel R Schwarz - Published on: 2014-01-14
- Released on: 2014-01-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .69" w x 5.51" l, .85 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 293 pages
Reading Joyce's Ulysses, by Daniel R Schwarz
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Re-reading Ulysses: for the re-repeat reader of Joyce By John L Murphy The title's misleading: this isn't for a first or even second or third-time reader of Ulysses. While many books now offer the novice "training wheels" to steady a ride through the Hibernian labyrinth, fewer meet the demands of intermediate readers in an accessible manner that can be recommended to non-academic, amateur Joyceans. While much freer of jargon than many of his scholarly peers, Schwarz' study is not a book to skim. I'm not even sure that RJU is the perfect answer for the repeat reader--much of the first hundred pages I found very dense, both exhausting and stimulating in turn, and I'm a literature professor! But, as the author insists, Joyce demands more of us than other writers, and we need to work out to meet the challenge and earn the reward. No pain, no gain, indeed.As a coach, Schwarz in his "humanistic formalism" teaches us a sensible interpretation based on Joyce's "metaferocity." This plan charts the metaphorical circles around the Bloomsday core, and explores some of their ripples. His thesis: 'If the result of the action of Ulysses is to enable a more mature and gifted Stephen-Joyce to write Ulysses, the result of reading Ulysses is to enable us to become consubstantial with the plenitude of Joycean voices.'(61) He argues throughout against those critics who claim that the style of the book, especially in its latter half, overwhelms the tale and its characters.To support this, his defense of the difficult chapters such as Eumaeus and Ithaca advances his proof that here the style captures the problems Stephen and Bloom have in establishing a true rapport. Earlier, he draws upon Bloom's Jewishness to illuminate a crucial distinction between the pair: "Joyce is also contrasting a characteristic Jewish turn toward tomorrow and acceptance of today--even while being fully conscious of the frustrations of the present and disappointments of the past--with the Irish preoccupation with a romanticized version of the past and the Catholic obsession wuth dwelling on past sins and measuring every action according to a strict and narrow barometer of sins and grace." (105) Furthermore, although many of Schwarz' suppositions do strain a bit of credulity (I fail to see despite twice being assured that 16 by the term itself clearly symbolizes homosexuality; his reading of Bloom as one of the 36 Wise Men, a lamed vov, of Jewish tradition does not seem supported in Cyclops; or his claim that the pair's relationship fails to be obscured by the prose of Oxen of the Sun), I did enjoy immensely his playful exegesis linking the Citizen and his cronies at Barney Kiernan's to a nearly complete Seder!A couple of drawbacks: a tendency by the author to ask every couple of pages stiltedly "Do we not see" or "Must we then not claim" types of questions when assertions would've strengthened his claims better. Also, once in an endnote and once in the text, paragraphs from earlier in his text reappear verbatim. Added to this a need to proofread for typos and errors such as "principle" for "principal" leaves me a bit disappointed at the quality control exerted upon the manuscript.Still, a worthwhile exertion for those taking on Ulysses after the training wheels have come off and the need to enter a mental marathon impels the reader to return yet again to mid-June 1904.Half-a-star rounded up for effort. 3 1/2- 3 3/4 stars, more precisely.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. THE BEST BOOK FOR ANY RE-READER OF ULYSSES By Love Thy Enemy If you only get one guide to Ulysses, get this one. I find every page illuminating and helpful and revelatory, and keep it closely nearby. I am reading the 1987, and may order this "centenary" re-issue as well, as I have heavily marked my original.You will not regret having this book as guide for reflection and comprehension. YOu will grow to understand and to love Joyce's otherwise easily dismissed brilliance, hidden under the bushel basket of academics on their own agendas.Only a pitifully few books are crucial to the Joyce bookshelf, and this is one.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. ENLIGHTENING - Modern-day Odysseus, precursor to FINNEGANS WAKE By James C Brandon Joyce was 40 yrs old when Ulysses was published, it is a day in the life of a husband and father of Joyce's age (at publication). Joyce loved Dublin and Ireland and though the book was written on the European continent - he wanted to memorialize his birth home (Ireland). The framework of Ulysses is Homer's Odyssey - The Roman (Ulysses) is the translation of the Greek (Odyssey): 1 Telemachus, 2 Nestor, 3 Proteus, 4 Calypso, 5 Lotus Eaters, 6 Hades, 7 Aeolus, 8 Lestrygonians, 9 Scylla And Charybdis, 10 Wandering Rocks, 11 Sirens, 12 Cyclops, 13 Nausicca, 14 Oxen Of The Sun, 15 Circe, 16 Eumaeus, 17 Ithaca, and 18 Penelope.Literary complements like "Reading Joyce's Ulysses" can be helpful in understanding Joyce's works.Ulysses is the tale of a Modern-day Odysseus, Leopold Bloom in his personal existential/sexual quest. The conclusion of this quest is the quintessential affirmation of humanity, the fundamental family unit - the father, mother, son, and daughter. Like Odysseus, absent from Penelope, traveling the world, for many long years, Leopold Bloom is also absent from his Penelope (in Dublin). Like a traveler (Odysseus), Bloom is sexually absent (abstinent) from Molly “10 years, 5 months and 18 days” (736). Unlike Odysseus, the obstacles Bloom faces are psychological (modern) - internal travails instead of Odysseus' external travails. Bloom's only son’s death has become a psychological barrier; as Molly reflects: “we were never the same since” (778). Yet Bloom is optimistic throughout the work - in regard to the possibility of another child, again Molly: ”Ill give him one more chance” (780). Affirmatively (as we grow to know Molly) we find she has given and is willing to continue to give Bloom “one more chance”. Through the course of the (Dublin) day, Bloom experiences “deep frustration, humiliation, fear, punishment and catharsis” (Herring, p.74). Bloom needs to lead himself back, out of self-deception, fantasy, and frustration to Molly’s (and his marriage) bed.Bloom’s travails come in the Circe chapter (Odyssey) and it is imperative (for Joyce) that as readers, we recognize Joyce’s change from Homer's Odyssey - this is Joyce's major rework, deviating from his Greek predecessor. For Odysseus: insight, understanding, enlightenment, and all importantly direction come to Odysseus in his journey to the (ancient Greek) Underworld. For Bloom, the Hades chapter (Odyssey) or “the other world” represents an “emptiness of mind” (in Ulysses); Joyce was a man grounded (and devoted) to the present world of man's consciousness and unconsciousness. In Ulysses enlightenment comes in the Circe chapter, described though the Joycean technique of hallucination or the discoveries of the "unconscious mind”. Joyce's Circe chapter (a surrealistic one-act Ibsen-like play) is where Bloom finds self-possession - (Joyce makes) Bloom encounter his own psycho-sexual existential questions, rather than finding life's answers in the dead ghosts of his life (the ancient Greek Hades chapter of the dead past).Joyce equanimously gives both Molly and Bloom extramarital sexual infidelities - infidelities known by each of the other. As early as the Calypso chapter (Odyssey), Bloom was conscious of what was to come. Of course there will be resolution in marriage, for Molly only needs to feel that Bloom is willing. As we read, Bloom has undergone the travails of his own mind and has emerged Victorious. He has succeeded in his psycho-sexual existential quest. He has arrived at Molly’s bed. Self-possessed. Victorious. Eager.Molly "I saw he understood or felt what a woman is and I knew I could always get round him...then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down in to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. (END)".After publishing Ulysses, Joyce began FINNEGANS WAKE (FW) - Joyce largely stepped out of one work into his next (and last work). The change Joyce made in FW was instead of using Homer's Ulysses as a framework - FW's framework is Giambattista Vico's "La Scienza Nuova's" 4 cyclic stages of history.Joyce realized that he ended Ulysses wrongly (not in accordance with the Universe) in Molly's bed - Joyce corrects his mistake in FINNEGANS WAKE by incorporating Vico's revelation of restart / recirculation. FW starts in "book I ch 3" with HCE arrested in front of his tavern/home, like Bloom unable to enter his front door (but HCE does not enter his home through the back door) - instead HCE is arrested for disturbances in hours before dawn. Then "book I ch 4" HCE's conscious/awake or unconscious/dream psychological travails of past guilts (underworld coffin, Ulysses ch Hades) while incarcerated in early hours of morning. Followed by "book I ch 2" HCE walks home through Phoenix Park accosted for the time of day (12 noon) which threatens (real/unreal memories, Ulysses ch Nausicaa) his innocent well-being. These 3 chapters in FW are Joyce's major rework to incorporate Vico's revelation of restart / recirculation into FW - Joyce rewrites 3 chapters of Ulysses: When He is denied Her front door, He is in Hell (on earth), when released (from Hell) His odyssey to Her begins again (with His ever-present accompanying internal travails) for She always knows when He is worthy of Her acceptance (their Paradise).Then "book I ch 1" Finnegan's afternoon wake at HCE's tavern. Inside HCE's tavern his patrons talk about his family, truthful (letters) and fabricated stories (book I:5-8 and book II:3); while the children (Shaun, Shem and Iseult) are in and out of the family tavern/home all day taking their lessons (book II:2) and playing about with their friends (book II:1); HCE, as proprietor, defends himself with a self-deprecating speech before his drunken collapse late night (book II:3). HCE dreams on his tavern floor (book II:4); then dreams in his bed (book III:1-3); before lovemaking with his wife ALP (book III:4). HCE & ALP's dissolution dream (book IV) to awaken to a new day, a supposition may be made that Joycean Nirvana is attained by HCE (via Dzogchen Trekchö) and ALP (via Dzogchen Tögal) - realizing the heart of enlightenment in the present moment, transcending all defilements and fixations (beyond all dualistic polarities) so that their rainbow bodies are realized, unification with the Unmanifest (creation, incarnate conception) and Reincarnation (the baton has been passed on again), awaiting Joyce's God "thunderclap" at the beginning of FW's "book I".FW is aural (oral) history like Homer's Odessey and Celtic folktales - when one pronounces (phonology) FW's words (aloud) there are more languages than just English; also, when one reads (morphology) FW's words almost all the words are "portmanteaus / neologisms" which gives each of FW's "polysynthetic words" many meanings (impermanence, Heisenberg uncertainty), each FW sentence dozens of possible messages, each FW paragraph hundreds of possible readings, Joyce's rendering of a more expansive English language and multiplicating universal book with coalescing syncretic themes/stories (that responds to each reader's inquiries). Joyce schooled in Christian Jesuit metaphysics (pushed down into the mindfulness of human consciousness) breathes in the spirit of expansive Celtic (Irish) community tavern life where man's stories of life are told. Tavern life teaches the evolution of Joyce's ten God "thunderclaps" (one hundred lettered words) pushing man's evolution forward from cave man's tales to modern tv media tales. Inside the tavern man learns of the purely human (animal) fall, taken down by another human(s) - like animal taken down on the African savanna. A granular reading of FW can render FW as an updated John Milton's Paradise Lost (regurgitated knowledge from the tree, to affirm man's damnation); however, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species was published in 1859 and Joyce in FW book II clearly walks Shaun, Shem and Iseult through their earthly evolutionary lifetime travails, our mortality is a consequence of Life's evolution. Every page of FW speaks to man's evolution and to Life recirculating (West meets Dzogchen East a "meeting of metaphysical minds") that binds humanity together into the future. Dzogchen (beyond all dualistic polarities) the heart of human consciousness - Joyce's underlying (subcutaneous) arguments refute the "Western curse of metaphysical/mythological damnation", the curse does not exist in the Eastern mind. Like "counting the number of angels on the head of a pin" (Aquinas 1270) Joyce provides a granular reading of FW as a "defense against all Western adversity" for our conscious and unconscious Western travails. HCE's angst is caused by his community that imposes a Western curse (damnation) upon him that man is not guilty of. To experience Joycean Nirvana, a defense against this man-made guilt is required - for as Zoroaster revealed cosmogonic dualism, evil is mixed with good in man's everyday (universal) travails (even the Dalai Lama must defend Nirvana rigorously from the most populous authoritarian state in human history).Joyce's FW celebrates the (Joys of) Christian (Krishna, Shem) diversity of humanity (expansiveness of human consciousness, Gnostic Norwegian Captain, Archdruid), Brahma (Finnegan, HCE, Shaun, etc...), Divine Women (ALP, Iseult, etc...), his family - (and the Sufferings of) the inescapable "evil" of Shiva (Buckley), the debilitating harmful sterile authoritarian institutionalizing damnation (MaMaLuJo, St. Patrick) by Augustine, the manufactured clerical corruption identified by Luther (since 367 AD) and the burdens of "survival of the fittest" anxiety (modern commerce) met with a Dzogchen Buddhist stance. The (innocent infant) Norwegian Captain (Krishna, HCE), occasionally defensive (Shiva, HCE), though concretized (Brahma, HCE) by community family life (MaMaLuJo) - through spirits (drink) HCE can access his spirituality (dreams) and through spiritual (cutting through) love-making with ALP (direct approach) can access (their Krishnas) unification with the Unmanifest.JCB
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