Ep. 120 - THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME
How often does James Joyce think about the Roman Empire?
Mr. Toilet House, Suwon, South Korea
Topics in this episode include Leopold Bloom bullied by children and adults, stealing upon larks, the Oval, The Rose of Castille, Lenehan’s riddle unfulfilled, the Roman Empire as an analogue to the British Empire, puns, cloacae, the origin of the phrase “cloacal obsession,” H.G. Wells’ review of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, MacHugh’s anti-imperial oratory, Stephen Dedalus’ favorite smells, “The Holy Office,” the British love of the watercloset, colonialist civilizing and British conquest, Sir John Harington and the first flush toilet, Ajax and a jakes, François Rabelais, Edward Said, and Dermot’s impression of H.G. Wells.
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Further Reading:
Anspaugh, K. (1995). Ulysses upon Ajax? Joyce, Harington, and the Question of “Cloacal Imperialism.” South Atlantic Review, 60(2), 11–29. https://doi.org/10.2307/3201298
Beck, H. Stealing upon larks. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/larks
Bowen, Z. (1974). Musical allusions in the works of James Joyce: Early poetry through Ulysses. Albany: State University of New York Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y9erlwtw
Ellmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/page/n39
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
Mikics, D. (1990). History and the Rhetoric of the Artist in “Aeolus.” James Joyce Quarterly, 27(3), 533–558. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25485060
Schechner, M. (1974). Joyce in Nighttown: A psychoanalytic inquiry into Ulysses. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/knkkkse6
Wells, H.G. (1917, Mar 10). A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce. The New Republic. Retrieved fromhttp://www.james-joyce-music.com/wells031017.html