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[Link to previous chapters here ] With "Ithaca," Joyce achieved such breadth of language, so infinite, so microscopic, that you...

[Link to previous chapters here ] In a way, "Ithaca," the penultimate chapter yet the proper summation of Ulysses ' "plot...

[Link to previous chapters here ] Once again, Joyce gives the audience a breather, following up the sexual nightmares conjured by M.C. Esche...

[Link to previous chapters here ] Did someone tear out what was meant to be the Circe chapter and paste in the screenplay for Bitter Moon h...

[Link to previous chapters here ] Let me me briefly summarize how I've gotten through Ulysses to this point. After constantly checking ...

[Link to previous chapters here ] Note to self: stop thinking I have Leopold Bloom pegged down. James Joyce delights in confounding expectat...

[Link to previous chapters here ] Nothing makes me as simultaneously amused and infuriated as a bad (good?) pun. Joyce highlights the fact t...

Sometimes Joyce can be so literal I almost don't notice what he's doing. The Sirens chapter is based, of course, on the golden-voice...

Odysseus never travels through the Wandering Rocks in The Odyssey . Given the choice between the rocks, which pose such hazards that not eve...

The Scylla and Charybdis episode marks a turning point in Ulysses : though it once again only teases the reader with the near-miss of Stephe...

Having already established Leopold Bloom as a sympathetic character, even something of a role model, Joyce frees the poor man from the dismi...

"Talk, talk, it's all talk Too much talk, small talk Talk that trash" -- King Crimson, "Elephant Talk Steeped in obscure ...