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Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce

Frank Delaneywww.frankdelaney.com
ReJOYCE! To commemorate James Joyce's mighty novel, Ulysses, we're launching a podcast. Every week you'll find a five-minute mini-essay from me designed to take you through the novel that's on every list of the greatest books ever written. And as Ulysses runs to some 375,000 words, and I mean to go through it sentence by sentence if I have to, in order to convey the full brilliance of this novel - and the enjoyment to be had from it - I'll be podcasting for some time to come! It's such an absorbing book, it's got diamond mines of references, it's so compassionate, so tender, so moving, so funny - and most of us never know that, because most of us have long been daunted by it. No need to be afraid any more - that is, if you make a habit of listening to these podcasts.
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Episodes

Episode 118: Shooting & Shaking

Stephen's remembered self, still in Paris, walks like the dispossessed - and murders in his mind. The Linati schema.

Sep 12, 20129 min

Episode 116, Rabbits & Geese

Thinking of Paris and Irish expatriates: Patrice, dynamite, and wild geese. The Michelet view of women, and a little French dialogue.

Aug 29, 20128 min

Re: Joyce 115: French Fun

Stephen is not going to his aunt's house after all. Kevin Egan, and the works of the blasphemous M. Leo Taxil.

Aug 22, 201210 min

Episode 114: Nets and Shells

Musings on the sand, shells, lost ships, and sewage. A stogged bottle, and Christ imagery on a clothesline.

Aug 15, 201211 min

Episode 113: Under a Cloud

Stephen imagines his writings lasting an epoch, a mahamanvantara. Then: back to the third-person narrative of grainy sand and squeaking pebbles.

Aug 08, 201210 min

Episode 112: Epiphany Time

Still Chapter 3, on the Sandymount Strand. Stephen reflects on his childhood reading habits, literary ambitions, and private conceits.

Aug 01, 201210 min

Episode 110: Razors & Nonsense

Still on Sandymount Strand. "Dan" Occam, the invincible doctor. Imagined bells and twinned principles.

Jul 18, 201213 min

Episode 109: Menace and Echo

Priests move through Stephen's mind, in the sort of passage that got Joyce in trouble. Three bells mark three Eucharists.

Jul 11, 20129 min

Episode 106: Whiskey and Whistling

In Stephen's mind (still on Sandymount Strand), his uncle offers him food and drink, of a sorts. Second-hand opera, and a note of warning.

Jun 20, 201210 min

Episode 105a: Meeting Joyce

A special episode celebrates Bloomsday 2012 on June 16. Frank introduces us to the first five stories of Dubliners as a way of "getting into Joyce."

Jun 16, 201218 min

Episode 105: Irish Bull

An imagined domestic scene, mock heroism, and Stephen's nuncle. Differing versions of the text, and contradictions. Names unpacked, and a poignant poem.

Jun 13, 201211 min

Episode 104: A Little Swearing

In Stephen's mind, his father continues to mock his mother's family, and Stephen visits his uncle's cottage.

Jun 06, 20128 min

Episode 103: Cost Accountants and Cornet Players

Sandymount Strand. Stephen's thoughts: his father's voice editorializes on his mother's family. To illuminate, Frank calls on the Iliad, and Thersites's rant against Agamemnon.

May 30, 20129 min

Episode 102: Taking the Air

Chapter 3 continues along Sandymount Strand. Wind and waves, Hamlet, and a god of the sea.

May 23, 20129 min

Episode 101: Who Is Arius?

Stephen on the nature of the trinity, and the fate of heresiarchs. Contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality.

May 16, 20129 min

Episode 100: Carnival Knowledge

Still on Sandymount Strand. Stephen ponders his own origins and, for the first time, reflects on his father.

May 09, 201210 min

Episdode 99: Madam, I'm Adam

Still on the beach, Stephen muses on Eve, bellybuttons, bucklers, and a good deal of poetry.

May 02, 201212 min

Episode 98: Something Binary

Stephen ascribes a crime to the midwife on the beach. A phonecall to the navel of the world.

Apr 25, 201211 min

Episode 96a: Reading Lists

In this bonus episode, Frank describes Joyce's reading list, which owed so much to his Catholic education.

Apr 13, 201214 min
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