Ep. 110 - Aeolus

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind…

Aeolus Giving the Winds to Odysseus, Isaac Moillon, 17th c.

We kick off our series on Ulysses’ seventh episode, “Aeolus”! Topics in this episode include Book X of The Odyssey, Homeric parallels found in “Aeolus”, the headlines, the Evening Telegraph as it appears in Ulysses, Stromboli, brazen walls and floating isles, wind and air imagery, the history of the Freeman’s Journal, the Sham Squire, Sir John Gray, the downfall of the Freeman’s Journal, bathos, the degradation of language, and the oppression of mad, invisible god.

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Sir John Gray on O’Connell St.

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Further Reading:

1. Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. Oxford University Press.

2. Ellmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/page/n39  

3. 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 

4. Gilbert, S. (1955). James Joyce’s Ulysses: a study. New York: Vintage Books. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124373/page/n3/mode/2up 

5. Joyce, S. (1958). My brother’s keeper: James Joyce’s early years. New York: The Viking Press.

6. Kenner, H. (1987). Ulysses. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?id=Ajlz5rzPBOkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false 

7. Larkin, F. (2019, May 8). James Joyce’s joust with journalism: The Freeman’s Journal in Ulysses’ Aeolus chapter. The Irish Times. Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/james-joyce-s-joust-with-journalism-the-freeman-s-journal-in-ulysses-aeolus-chapter-1.3879908 

8. Osteen, M. (1995). The economy of Ulysses: making both ends meet. New York: Syracuse University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yycf2ar5 

9. Schwarz, D. (2004). Reading Joyce’s Ulysses. Palgrave Macmillan. 

10. Sicari, S. (2001). Joyce’s modernist allegory: Ulysses and the history of the novel. University of South Carolina Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/usnk8658 

11. Simone, T. (2013). “Met him pike hoses”: Ulysses and the Neurology of Reading. Joyce Studies Annual 2013, 207-237. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/530794.

12. Zweifach, B. Aeolus - Modernism Lab. Retrieved from https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab/aeolus/