John F Taylor
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Ep. 129 – DEAR DIRTY DUBLIN
What if we held hands in the Akasic Record? Topics in this episode include too much information about the Freemasons, entering the Promised Land, Daniel O’Connell’s mass meeting at Mullaghmast, political radicalism, the Akasic Record, Stephen’s magic powers, rebutting John F. Taylor, Parnell’s parliamentary finesse, argumentum ad pasiones, leaning into your own bias, the origin…
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Ep. 128- FROM THE FATHERS
Featuring a surprise historical cameo! Topics in this episode include our final example of Aristotelian rhetoric, the only passage of Ulysses recorded by James Joyce, the battle of wits between Mr. Justice Fitzgibbon and John F. Taylor, misperceptions about Taylor’s oratory, the Gaelic Revival, Dreamy Jimmy, ferial tone, a Moses for Ireland, MacHugh can’t catch…
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Ep. 111 – Enthymemic
All men are mortal, and Socrates is a man. Therefore, all men are Socrates. Wait… In this episode, we discuss the art and technic of “Aeolus”: rhetoric and “enthymemic.” Topics include Stuart Gilbert and his schema, rhetoric as a classical art form, the Jesuits and rhetoric, the extremely comprehensive lists of rhetorical forms found in…
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The Language of the Outlaw: John F. Taylor’s Speech in “Aeolus”
“But though the Irish are eloquent, a revolution is not made of human breath and compromises.” – James Joyce, “Ireland, Island of saints and Sages”, 1907 To listen to a discussion of this topic, check out the podcast episode here and here. In the closing pages of “Aeolus,” Ulysses’ seventh episode, the men gathered in…
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Rhetoric and the Enthymeme in Aeolus
“All very fine to jeer at it now in cold print but it goes down like hot cake that stuff.” To listen to a discussion of this topic, check out the podcast episode here. If you’ve ever picked up a reading guide or annotation for Ulysses, you’re likely familiar with the lists of correspondences arranged…