Ep. 144 - Rawhead and Bloody Bones
Let’s hope for something galoptious when all’s said and done.
Topics in this episode include the lestrygonian feast in the Burton, masculinity and meat eating, societal paralysis, Bloom’s plan to feed the masses, Bloom’s memories of working in the cattle market, the importance of cattle to the Irish economy, the horror that is dicky meat, the violence of the cattle trade, the carnivore diet, Bloom’s performative masculinity, Bloom’s political moderateness, class horror, Padraic Pearse and the Easter Rising, Æ’s political decline, and the problem of pacifism.
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Further Reading:
Adkins, P. (2017). The Eyes of That Cow: Eating Animals and Theorizing Vegetarianism in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Humanities, 6 (46). Retrieved from https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/6/3/46
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
Freedman, A. (2009). Don’t eat a beef steak": Joyce and the Pythagoreans. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 51(4), 447–462. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40755555
Kain, R., & O’Brien, J. (1976). George Russell (A.E.) London: Associated University Presses.
Osteen, M. (1995). The economy of Ulysses: making both ends meet. New York: Syracuse University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yycf2ar5
RICH, L. (2010). A Table for One: Hunger and Unhomeliness in Joyce’s Public Eateries. Joyce Studies Annual, 71–98. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26288755
Romanoff, A. Lestrygonians-Modernism Lab. Retrieved from https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab/lestrygonians/
Rosenquist, R. Bloom’s digestion of the economic and political situation. Flashpoint Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.flashpointmag.com/lestrgon.htm
Tucker, L. (1984) Stephen and Bloom at Life’s Feast. Ohio State University Press.
WILLIAMS, T. L. (1993). “Hungry man is an angry man”: A Marxist Reading of Consumption in Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 26(1), 87–108. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24780518
Yared, A. (2009). Eating and Digesting “Lestrygonians”: A Physiological Model of Reading. James Joyce Quarterly, 46(3/4), 469–479. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20789623