I sat down to have a read at it. I did not know what was going on. I thought I had concussion. There were some words I knew, others I half knew, others not at all, others that did not exist except there. I gave up and slunk out of the place with my tail between my legs.
Since then I have learnt how to read Joyce. You have to let him come to you. I do that now and then. I am a Joycean now.
I rejoice in what he called his "exaltation. I read two of his poems at my Mother's funeral in a small rural graveyard in Donegal. The local people were mesmerized. John Throne. By the way i went on to have a best seller book myself. The Donegal Woman. By John Throne. The various highlighted points and ideas given and have been mentioned in detail are quite considerable and up to the level of that blog, I will visit that platform again in future.
It is a relief to find someone who can articulate a proper appreciation for Joyce in such a small space. It is surprising how he is overlooked in academia today.
I just graduated from a decent lit program and was enraged at how, but for one professor of genuine taste, my educators overlooked Joyce, Proust, even Shakespeare for the hacks of American Post-modernism and for all the drab that is contemporary fiction. You've brightened a night of rereading Sirens. Thank you for the great comment. I thought reading at least some snippets of Joyce would be required in any "decent lit program.
Thank you for making it so clear. Helped me a lot. Please see this annotated bibliography maker. This is by far the best article I've read about Joyce and one of the best I've read ever since internet started. Say what? If this is written honestly, then thanks a million. That's pretty enormous praise. I agree. I am slightly obsessed and constantly look for new material as I continually annotate, decipher and explore the Wake, and this is by far the most articulate, fully encompassing and informative esp.
I can tell you are a fan, and I like your writing style as well. It's too long, and those parts are boring and some of them don't make sense. Joyce is to literature what Bob Dylan and the Sex Pistols were to music: the be all and end all. He was a European who had a keen sense of the majesty of the ordinary man. He acknowledges the miraculous in life. The existence of Bloomsday is an amazing thing. A free festival, a pilgrimage where the participant can lay claim to his and her part in the living culture of a place and a state of mind.
It puts a dent into accepted reality and teases out the possibilities ever present in the moment. Joyce came to visit my grandparents' house in Galway and played the piano I now own. He was a singer of note. It's extremely sexual in parts, and although I've tried about five times, I still haven't gotten through it.
We have such a fantastic crop of writers now that we don't have to look to the past to appreciate our literary culture. I tried to tell myself that it was an important work and I had to read it, but each time, I just got frustrated with it.
The main thing is that it's good for tourism, and I'm big on anything that helps that. If people want to dress up in straw bowlers and drink Pimms and Guinness and eat kidneys, then fair dues to them, more power to them and I hope they have a great time. Viewed 2k times. Improve this question.
Excellent question - now I'm curious about that too. Welcome to the site BTW. He wasn't the first to do stream of consciousness, as I recall, but he was the first rockstar of the form, garnering massive acclaim and controversy for Ulysses. I believe his approach to adapting the classical material was also considered somewhat avant-garde.
Also, the book ends with a quite erotic passage, that many interpret as Molly having an orgasm" ""I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another… then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
DukeZhou He definitely was known for stream of consciousness and was one of the pioneers of it in widespread esp. Irish literature as it was only first referred to in , just 20 years earlier than the publication of Ulysses , so that could well be one of the reasons.
DukeZhou Could your comments maybe be turned into an answer? Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Matt Thrower Matt Thrower Just a minor point, Jane Austen did not use stream of consciousness; it was a different technique called 'free indirect discourse'.
The effect is somewhat similar however. This page explores it well. I imagine lots of people have tried to write novels like Finnegan's Wake. But deprived of the advantage of novelty, critics have difficulty finding merit in them. It's been proposed to me by more than one lit scholar that Finnegans is most comprehensible with a belly full of whisky ; Gell-Mann famously drew on the books in coining "quark", and Joyce's influence seems to have extended far beyond literature: Joyce, Chaos and Complexity — DukeZhou.
JoshuaEngel I doubt that. While it's almost impossible to read as a traditional novel, the bits of it I've looked at are extraordinary, packed with allusions, puns and multiple reading frames. Bi tso fb rok engl a ssan dspl itch ina. DukeZhou Yes, thanks for that - he's had a surprising impact outside of literature.
Considered adding a paragraph about it, but I didn't want this to turn into an essay. An alert reader will notice that the passage is controversial even today, particularly with very staunch conservatives who are inflexible, intolerant and have religious views that border on totalitarian thinking: "In the name of Annah the Allmazifal, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!
In the case of Ulysses , you are thrown headfirst into the difficult stream of consciousness of Stephen Dedalus, a precocious year-old writer.
The fourth chapter , instead, is a much more accessible opening. On the day the novel is set, June 16, , Stephen and Bloom strike up an unlikely friendship in Dublin.
However, venture further and you will discover that Ulysses morphs, becoming instead a great anti-stream of consciousness novel. For French philosopher Henri Bergson , our stream of consciousness is our continuous sense of time, in which past, present and future merge. It is the fluid life at the heart of our identity. According to Bergson, these streams are at the centre of every object and every person. We superimpose on its fluid life our own static symbols, like language.
Another example is the numbers.
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