Sinopsis
Re: Joyce! On the international literary feast day of Bloomsday 2010, we launched a podcast to commemorate James Joyce's mighty novel, "Ulysses", the action of which took place in 18 hours of June 16, 1904. Every week you'll find a five-minute mini-essay from me designed to take you through the novel that's on every list of the greatest books ever written. And as Ulysses runs to some 375,000 words, and I mean to go through it sentence by sentence if I have to, in order to convey the full brilliance of this novel - and the enjoyment to be had from it - I'll be podcasting for some time to come! It's such an absorbing book, it's got diamond mines of references, it's so compassionate, so tender, so moving, so funny - and most of us never know that, because most of us have long been daunted by it. No need to be afraid any more - that is, if you make a habit of listening to these podcasts.
Episodios
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re Joyce 147, Shovel Hats & Shadows
03/04/2013 Duración: 12minIn chapter 3 Frank discusses emblematic illustrations, bishops, religion and Aristotle.
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re: Joyce 146, Seeing Stars
27/03/2013 Duración: 11minAs Stephen continues to write poetry we learn of Cassiopeia, augurs and their flights of birds, along with Freud, Jung, and Telemachus.
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re: Joyce 145, Taking Note
20/03/2013 Duración: 10minFrank discusses two quotes, one simple, one opaque, the latter filled with hidden symbolism, sexual desire and the connections that make them sing.
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re: Joyce 144-A, Who is Sylvia?
15/03/2013 Duración: 14minFrank talks about Sylvia Beach and her part in brining Ulysses to the world.
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re: Joyce 144, Womb to Tomb
13/03/2013 Duración: 12minFrank discusses Joycean phrases including "Pin it Down" along with actor Kevin Spacey.
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re: Joyce 143, Kissing
06/03/2013 Duración: 10minStephen still on Sandymount. "Omnis caro ad te veniet." A pale vampire, and Douglas Hyde. Hamlet's tablets.
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re: Joyce 142: Blood & Candles
27/02/2013 Duración: 12minStill Proteus, still on Sandymount Strand, Stephen watches the "gypsy woman" pass. The handmaid of the moon. Bride-, child-, and death-beds.
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re: Joyce 141, Prince of Tides
20/02/2013 Duración: 12minThe couple passes Stephen on the beach, and he wonders if the woman wonders about him - or his hat. Saint James, Hamlet, and Eve.
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re: Joyce 140: Prayers & Slang
13/02/2013 Duración: 09minA bit of song: The Rogue's Delight and The Canting Academy. Morose delectation. Stephen muses on monkwords versus roguewords.
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re: Joyce 139: Bussing & Wapping
06/02/2013 Duración: 10minStephen contemplates the lingo of rogues, and Frank introduces us to Thomas Harman and Richard Head.
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re: Joyce 138: Egyptians & Cant
30/01/2013 Duración: 11minThe cocklepickers become Gypsies in Stephen's mind. Bing awast to Romeville.
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re: Joyce 137: Dream On!
23/01/2013 Duración: 11minStephen's dream, almost. Haroun al Raschid. Adverb becomes verb.
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re: Joyce 136: Panther and Paws
16/01/2013 Duración: 09minThe dogs digs; Thomas Gray's Elegy. Spouse-breach and pards, and Brunetto Latini's Tesoretto.
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re: Joyce 135: Cocklepickers and Dogsbodies
09/01/2013 Duración: 09minTatters, the cocklepickers' dog, encounters a fallen comrade on Sandymount Strand and is called away. In Memoriam.
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re: Joyce 134: Of Mice and Morse
02/01/2013 Duración: 11minStill on Sandymount Strand: a dog, depicted with a painter's eye, barks at the sea. Heraldry. Seamorse… or seamouse?
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re: Joyce 133: Cool, Cool Water
26/12/2012 Duración: 07minStephen thinks of drowning, and his mother's death. Tide and change.
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re: Joyce 132A: Re: Joyce for Christmas
21/12/2012 Duración: 23minIn this bonus episode a few days before Christmas, Frank discusses the final tale of The Dubliners: The Dead.
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re: Joyce 132: Barking at Boccaccio
19/12/2012 Duración: 08minStephen, dwelling on insults, thinks of the Decameron - and of his own failures of courage and athleticism.
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re: Joyce 131: Whales & Gigolos
13/12/2012 Duración: 15minStill on the same paragraph, Frank considers Walter Harris's The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin as a source for Joyce. Moving on, the dog barks, and Stephen imagines himself a stag at bay. Famous pretenders.
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Re: Joyce 130: Torcs & Tomahawks
05/12/2012 Duración: 10minA running dog on the beach. Stephen thinks of Lochland raiders, and of ancient Dubliners attacking beached turlehide whales.