Ep. 136 - U.p: up
Inside the madness of Breen
Mr. Breen
Topics in this episode include deep Ulysses lore, nostalgia traps, Molly’s suitors, the Glencree dinner, Old Professor Goodwin, Mr. and Mrs. Breen, U.p: up, the Ace of Spades, Breen’s postcard as an empty threat, an old forgotten expression, word play, hidden meanings, codes, peeing up and cloacal obsessions, Larry David, body shaming and erectile dysfunction, the Nolan and the wildest theory about U.p: up, accusations of apostasy, a controversy of Presbyterians, Michael Cusack and U.p: up, who sent the U.p: up postcard, Ulysses Pseudangelos and the lure of false messengers, Sailor Murphy, to roc and the black spot in “Ithaca.”
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Further Reading:
Adams, R. M. (1962). Surface and Symbol: The Consistency of James Joyce’s Ulysses. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bergman, G. The anonymous libeller of Denis Breen. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from: https://www.jjon.org/jioyce-s-people/breen
Cecconi, E. (2007). Who chose this face for me?: Joyce’s creation of secondary characters in Ulysses. Peter Lang.
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
Gibbons, L. (2015). Joyce's Ghosts: Ireland, Modernism, and Memory. United States: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from https://www.google.ie/books/edition/Joyce_s_Ghosts/ko7JCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
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
Ramey, J., & Ramey, J. T. (2007). Intertextual Metempsychosis in Ulysses: Murphy, Sinbad, and the “U.P.: up” Postcard. James Joyce Quarterly, 45(1), 97–114. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30244719
Simpson, J. Carlyle one, Carlisle nil. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from: https://www.jjon.org/jioyce-s-people/carlyle
Simpson, J. U.P: up and away. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from: https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/up-up