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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Episode 56: The Cookie Crumbles
06/07/2011 Duración: 07minIn Stephen's classroom, Frank muses on the names of cookies and of boys.
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Episode 55: Making the Point - of a Spear
29/06/2011 Duración: 06minStephen continues his lesson, and we learn something of both Pyrrhus and Nestor.
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Episode 54: Who is Nestor?
22/06/2011 Duración: 09minWe begin Chapter 2, and find Stephen in the classroom with old battles, radical poets, and the daughters of memory.
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Episode 53a: Happy Bloomsday!
16/06/2011 Duración: 06minJune 16 is Bloomsday, as well as the one-year anniversary of this podcast.
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Episode 53: Horns and Hooves
15/06/2011 Duración: 07minMulligan bathes, and Stephen takes his leave. The end of chapter 1.
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Episode 52: A Side of Ribs
08/06/2011 Duración: 06minGossip at the swimming hole: an unlikely officer, redheads, supermen, and missing ribs.
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Episode 51: A Little Exposure
01/06/2011 Duración: 06minStephen, Mulligan, and Haines encounter bathers, and Joyce employs some foreshadowing with news of Mulligan's brother.
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Episode 50: Weaving The Wind
25/05/2011 Duración: 06minStephen fathoms the depths of both Hell and Dublin Bay, and Frank muses upon T. S. Eliot.
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Episode 49: Holy Heresy
18/05/2011 Duración: 06minStephen presents us with a roll call of heresiarchs.
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Episode 48a: Matters of Character
13/05/2011 Duración: 11minIn this bonus episode, Frank discusses the four characters we've met so far, along with their real-life antecedents.
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Episode 46: Freethinking Walking Sticks
27/04/2011 Duración: 07minHaines asks Stephen about a personal god, and Stephen answers - out loud, briefly, and to himself, at great length.
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Episode 45: Faith and Cigarettes
20/04/2011 Duración: 06minStephen and Haines share a moment and a smoke.
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Episode 43: More Fathers and Sons
06/04/2011 Duración: 07minHaines dwells on Hamlet, and we are reminded of the famous sons of that play, the Odyssey, and - of course - the Bible.
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Episode 42: From Noah to Zeno
30/03/2011 Duración: 06minMulligan plays with paradox, and we get a foreshadowing of Stephen's father.
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Episode 41: A Drink With Thomas Aquinas
23/03/2011 Duración: 05minWe learn the price of both a rented tower and a lecture on Hamlet.
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Episode 40: Eggs for Sale
16/03/2011Punctuation obfuscates; but we press on, and find significance in Stephen's walking stick.
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