Ep. 53 - The Virgin at Hodges Figgis’ Window

Dermot and Kelly carry on discussing “Proteus” in their flutiest voices!

Shovel Hat

Topics in this episode include: yet more discussion of the philosophy of the good bishop of Cloyne, George Berkeley, shovel hats, the fluttering of the veil between the material world and the metaphysical world, Dermot’s grudge against Bertrand Russell, how language obscures one’s perception of the material world, the heraldic system of hatching, Stephen playing with his stereoscopic vision, Stephen’s ideal woman, Hodges Figgis, and how Stephen has trouble handling rejection, even if it’s in his own mind.

Dermot and Kelly carry on discussing "Proteus" in their flutiest voices! Topics in this episode include: yet more discussion of the philosophy of the good bishop of Cloyne, George Berkeley, shovel hats, the fluttering of the veil between the material world and the metaphysical world, Dermot's grudge against Bertrand Russell, how language obscures one's perception of the material world, the heraldic system of hatching, Stephen playing with his stereoscopic vision, Stephen's ideal woman, Hodges Figgis, and how Stephen has trouble handling rejection, even if it's in his own mind.

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Hodges Figgis’ Grafton St. storefront, c. 1900 (Irish Times)

Frozen in Stereoscope

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Media Mentioned in this Episode:

“Adoration of the Magi,”, William Butler Yeats

“A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge”, Bishop George Berkeley

“An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision”, Bishop George Berkeley

An example of hatching; more examples here

Further Reading:

Atura, A. & Dionne, L. Proteus - Modernism Lab. Retrieved from https://modernism.coursepress.yale.edu/proteus/

Beplate, J. (2007). Stephen's lyrical language: memory and imagination in Ulysses. Études anglaises, vol. 60,(1), 42-54. https://www.cairn.info/revue-etudes-anglaises-2007-1-page-42.htm?contenu=article

Brivic, S. (1991). The veil of signs: Joyce, Lacan, and perception. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yyzpanox

Cormack, A. (2008). Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical history and the reprobate tradition. Farnham: Ashgate Publish Limited. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y4vgr9ht

Falvey, D. (2018, Apr 21). Hodges Figgis: A 250-year-old story of selling books. The Irish Times. Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/hodges-figgis-a-250-year-old-story-of-selling-books-1.3464764

Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Livorni, E. (1999). "Ineluctable Modality of the Visible": Diaphane in the ‘Proteus’ Episode.” James Joyce Quarterly,36(2), 127-169. Retrieved from https://www.academia.edu/330177/_Ineluctable_Modality_of_the_Visible_Diaphane_In_the_Proteus_Episode

Vitoux, P. (1981). Aristotle, Berkeley, and Newman in "Proteus" and "Finnegans Wake". James Joyce Quarterly,18(2), 161-175. Retrieved fromhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/25476353