I’ll tickle his catastrophe, believe you me!
Topics include Ulysses tarot cards, incubism, the system of correspondences found in Ulysses, Martin Cunningham, Mr Power, Simon Dedalus, armstraps, caring for corpses, women’s role in caring for the dead, hats as identities, economic incubism, Bloom’s outsider status, Irish funeral customs, embalming, why Dignam’s widow doesn’t attend his funeral, keening, Rudy, 9 Newbridge Avenue, circulation and the heart, Dublin through a corpse-eye-view, funerals traveling through the center of town, Six Feet Under, an anonymous Englishman, kippers, Bloom as a defier of custom, fidus Achates, hat etiquette, Strumpet City, a wild Stephen appears, Latin Quarter hat, Richie Goulding, Bright’s disease, Simon Dedalus’ way with words, Ignatius Gallaher, “A Little Cloud,” the incubus of alcohol, Simon’s hatred of Buck Mulligan, Elizabethan insults, and the Joyce family’s connection to Clery’s.
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A blog and podcast that discuss James Joyce’s Ulysses from a non-academic point of view. Less snooty, more movie references.
I’ll tickle his catastrophe, believe you me!
Topics include Ulysses tarot cards, incubism, the system of correspondences found in Ulysses, Martin Cunningham, Mr Power, Simon Dedalus, armstraps, caring for corpses, women’s role in caring for the dead, hats as identities, economic incubism, Bloom’s outsider status, Irish funeral customs, embalming, why Dignam’s widow doesn’t attend his funeral, keening, Rudy, 9 Newbridge Avenue, circulation and the heart, Dublin through a corpse-eye-view, funerals traveling through the center of town, Six Feet Under, an anonymous Englishman, kippers, Bloom as a defier of custom, fidus Achates, hat etiquette, Strumpet City, a wild Stephen appears, Latin Quarter hat, Richie Goulding, Bright’s disease, Simon Dedalus’ way with words, Ignatius Gallaher, “A Little Cloud,” the incubus of alcohol, Simon’s hatred of Buck Mulligan, Elizabethan insults, and the Joyce family’s connection to Clery’s.
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Further Reading:
- Adams, R.M. (1974). Hades. In C. Hart & D. Hayman (eds.), James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical essays (91-114). Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/wu2y7mg
- Beck, H., and Simpson, J. In the Carriage for Paddy Dignam’s Funeral: Bloom was Right All Along. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-environs/funeral
- Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vy6j4tk
- Osteen, M. (1995). The economy of Ulysses: making both ends meet. New York: Syracuse University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yycf2ar5
- Slote, S., Mamigonian, M., and Turner, J. (2022). Annotations to James Joyce’s Ulysses. Oxford University Press.