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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

re: Joyce 146, Seeing Stars

As Stephen continues to write poetry we learn of Cassiopeia, augurs and their flights of birds, along with Freud, Jung, and Telemachus.

Mar 27, 201311 min

re: Joyce 145, Taking Note

Frank discusses two quotes, one simple, one opaque, the latter filled with hidden symbolism, sexual desire and the connections that make them sing.

Mar 20, 201311 min

re: Joyce 143, Kissing

Stephen still on Sandymount. "Omnis caro ad te veniet." A pale vampire, and Douglas Hyde. Hamlet's tablets.

Mar 06, 201311 min

re: Joyce 142: Blood & Candles

Still Proteus, still on Sandymount Strand, Stephen watches the "gypsy woman" pass. The handmaid of the moon. Bride-, child-, and death-beds.

Feb 27, 201313 min

re: Joyce 141, Prince of Tides

The couple passes Stephen on the beach, and he wonders if the woman wonders about him - or his hat. Saint James, Hamlet, and Eve.

Feb 20, 201312 min

re: Joyce 140: Prayers & Slang

A bit of song: The Rogue's Delight and The Canting Academy. Morose delectation. Stephen muses on monkwords versus roguewords.

Feb 13, 201310 min

re: Joyce 134: Of Mice and Morse

Still on Sandymount Strand: a dog, depicted with a painter's eye, barks at the sea. Heraldry. Seamorse… or seamouse?

Jan 02, 201312 min

re: Joyce 131: Whales & Gigolos

Still on the same paragraph, Frank considers Walter Harris's The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin as a source for Joyce. Moving on, the dog barks, and Stephen imagines himself a stag at bay. Famous pretenders.

Dec 13, 201215 min

Re: Joyce 130: Torcs & Tomahawks

A running dog on the beach. Stephen thinks of Lochland raiders, and of ancient Dubliners attacking beached turlehide whales.

Dec 05, 201211 min

Re: Joyce 129: Teeth & Bones

Just over halfway through Chapter 3, Proteus, we continue last week's passage. Sir Lout the gigant, and a live dog.

Nov 28, 201210 min

Re: Joyce 128: Sand & Stone

Stephen ascends from the tide, in both thought and motion, but finds only weeds, rocks, and rats. Louis Veuillot on Gautier, and an Arabian tale of sand and stone that may or may not be off-topic.

Nov 21, 201213 min

Re: Joyce 126: Time & Tide

A return from Paris to Sandymount Strand, and the Kish lightship. Depressions in sand and soul, and time passing.

Nov 07, 201211 min

Re: Joyce 125: Bombs & Ballads<p>

Paris still remembered on the Strand. Kevin Egan used to be a fine figure of a boy. Old bombs, old exiles, and old songs - and we're done with kevin Egan.

Nov 05, 201214 min

Re: Joyce 124: Betrayals and Disguises

Continuing a paragraph, Kevin Egan in the Paris of Stephen's memory. Victoria and Maud Gonne, Millevoye and Faure. Bathtime. Next paragraph: the bomber smokes, and muses on the jailbreak of James Stephens.

Oct 24, 201212 min

Re: Joyce 123: Matadors & Shepherds

Conversations in Paris. Dalcassians, Arthur Griffith, pimander. Stephen as his father's son in Kevin Egan's eyes. A shirt tells a story.

Oct 17, 201211 min

Re: Joyce 122: Fairies and Cheese

Stephen still remembers Paris with Kevin Egan and Patrice: gunpowder cigarettes, absinthe, milk, coffee, and postprandials.

Oct 12, 20129 min

Episode 120a: Five More Dubliners

Frank takes a look at four more stories from The Dubliners in this poorly-named episode: A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, A Mother, and Grace.

Sep 28, 201224 min
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