Thursday, January 22, 2009

Overview, Major Themes, General Musings, Miscellaneous Topics...

Posted by at

9 comments:

  1. zacharyJanuary 22, 2009 at 1:30 PM

    The fourth member of our group:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/zacharymull/3216607581/

    ReplyDelete
  2. AnonymousJanuary 26, 2009 at 5:05 PM

    Article about Joyce's place in Modernism full of excellent criticism quotes:
    Ulysses Unbound
    Why does a book so bad it "defecates on your bed" still have so many admirers?


    like "I will say it once and for all, straight out: it all went wrong with James Joyce," writes the dyspeptic critic Dale Peck, who condemns the book's "diarrheic flow of words" and applauds himself for having spoken "heresy" against a canonical work. "
    and
    "Joyce is blind in one eye because he read Ulysses and then the eye hung itself," writes nebber1214. "I'm contemplating traveling back in time and murdering James Joyce, in the face...For Ulysses to be any worse of a book, it would have to break into your house and defecate on your bed."
    and
    "The paradox is that the book is a giant fart joke," says Diana Wynne, producer of Joyce to the World (ill-advised puns are an unavoidable fact of Joyce fandom), a new documentary about Bloomsday celebrations...

    and

    The reliably stuffy Virginia Woolf called it the "illiterate, underbred book...of a self taught working man."

    ReplyDelete
  3. SFebruary 5, 2009 at 10:12 PM

    What do Ulysses and prohibition have in common?
    -not liquor soaked deabauchery...
    Correct Answer

    (Thanks to Ulysses the Blog!

    ReplyDelete
  4. ShellyFebruary 16, 2009 at 1:46 AM

    Interesting CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF JOYCE’S VIEWS ON SEXUALITY

    ReplyDelete
  5. ShellyFebruary 16, 2009 at 2:23 AM

    A view of the anti-Semitism in Ulysses: A Jew Reads Joyce

    ReplyDelete
  6. SFebruary 18, 2009 at 9:29 PM

    Sometimes it feels like the universe is giving you a personal shout out:
    Mardi Gras Celebration w/ Altered States of Funk, Eldridge Gravy & The Court Supreme, Hamburger Pimp, DJ Leopold Bloom
    Date/Time:Sat., February 21, 9:00pm
    Price: $8

    I wonder if I should go.

    ReplyDelete
  7. UnknownFebruary 19, 2009 at 9:23 AM

    Ha! Hilarious!

    ReplyDelete
  8. zacharyFebruary 27, 2009 at 5:12 PM

    Hey guys, I finish the book last week, but couldn't update for reasons I don't fully understand. I liked the last four sections better than anything else in the book, so if you're like me, you've got that to look forward to.

    ReplyDelete
  9. ShellyMay 29, 2009 at 8:35 AM

    Barely related, I saw a puppet opera version of Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses which was a great way to refresh on the Greek themes without rereading. The puppetry was interwoven with the story and the musicians and singers in a fashion which was visually compelling though I'd have looked for some different choices in staging. The set was very spare, really extremely understated for a traditional opera, and the hands behind the curtain usually invisible in puppetry were out in the open, so each character often had 2 puppeteers, 1 singer, + musicians. The shadow puppets were some of the most visually compelling parts of the staging. It was also really too bad it was so expensive. I could have likely gotten 4-5 other people to attend if the tickets had cost a bit less. I tried to find a discount through local book clubs or puppeteer groups. Nada. The show I attended had the theater at least 2/3 empty. Pity. The less expensive marionette opera of Cervantes Don Quixote by the Carter Family Marionettes was a smaller theater, but I believe it sold out most performances.
    Other unrelated Ulysses puppet show: here

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)