Ep. 131 - The Lestrygonians

Who’s for dinner?

Topics in this episode include revisiting Ulysses-themed tarot, Odysseus’ encounter with the Lestrygonians, being in Leopold Bloom’s head once more, the Homeric parallels found in Ulysses’ eighth episode, the dangers of being too hangry, translating The Odyssey into French, anthropomorphic geography, trophomorphism, the intersection of food and sexuality, bloody imagery, and why James Joyce connected fermentation to women.


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Further Reading:

  1. Budgen, F. (1972). James Joyce and the making of Ulysses, and other writings. London: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AMF2PZFZHI2WND8U 

  2. Childress, L. D. (1989). “Les Phéniciens et l’Odyssée”: A Source for “Lestrygonians.” James Joyce Quarterly, 26(2), 259–269. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25484946  

  3. Ellmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/2015.65767.Ulysses-On-The-Liffey_djvu.txt 

  4. Homer, translated by Palmer., G.H. (1912). The Odyssey. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. 

  5. 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 

  6. Kenner, H. (1987). Ulysses. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 

  7. Romanoff, A. Lestrygonians-Modernism Lab. Retrieved from https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab/lestrygonians/ 

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

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