“The task I set myself technically in writing a book [Ulysses] from eighteen different points of view and in as many styles … would be enough to upset anyone's mental balance.” — James Joyce, letter (June 1921)
This webpage and course are dedicated to the memory of Hugh Kenner, PhD (1923-2003)
TERM PAPER DEADLINE: To avoid a grade of zero, please submit your researched term paper (into course Folio drop box) no later than 11:59 pm on Monday, April 25, 2022
James Joyce (1882-1941) wrote Ulysses between 1914 and 1921 while living in self-imposed exile from his native place: Dublin, Ireland • The novel ends with the following list of the three cities where Joyce composed the novel: “Trieste-Zurich-Paris 1914-1921” • The action, which occurs in Dublin, begins at 8:00 am on Thursday, June 16, 1904 (“Bloomsday”) and ends close to 3:00 am on Friday, June 17, 1904 • The central protagonist is a 38-year-old advertising canvaser (salesman), Leopold (“Poldy”) Paula Bloom • An important secondary character is 22-year-old Stephen Dedalus, a university graduate who is holding down an uninspiring teaching job in a boys’ school • Although Ulysses was serialized (in The Little Review) between March 1918 and December 1920, it did not appear as a stand-alone book until February 2, 1922, when Joyce’s friend, Sylvia Beach, published it in Paris, where she operated a bookstore (Shakespeare & Co.)
Joyce’s Voices
THE NARRATOR \ THE ARRANGER \ INNER MONOLOGUE • Ulysses uses several storytelling voices and narrative techniques. In lines 228 through 231 of the “Sirens” chapter (Episode XI), we encounter the three principle modes of delivery in quick succession. First — concerning the foremost protagonist, Leopold Bloom, who is walking in Dublin, Ireland’s capital city — the narrator observes, “Mr Bloom reached Essex bridge.” Next, a narrating voice often called the arranger restates the datum: “Yes, Mr Bloom crossed bridge of Yessex.” Following the arranger, the text delivers Bloom’s thoughts (known as his inner monologue or stream of consciousness): “To Martha I must write. Buy paper. Daly’s. Girl there civil.” Then the arranger speaks once more: “Bloom. Old Bloom. Blue bloom is on the rye.”
Critical in assessing the narrative voice in Ulysses (and other works by Joyce) is the Uncle Charles Principle, which asserts that a passage of third-person narration may be written in the voice of its focal character (as if the author had surrendered the pen to the character). If a given paragraph focuses on Bloom, we should be open to the possibility that it unfolds in Bloom’s voice. Some critics assert that much of the “Eumaeus” chapter (Episode XVI) reflects how Bloom would write were he afforded the opportunity to compose literary prose. The phrase Uncle Charles Principle was coined by your instructor’s instructor, the late, great Canadian scholar Hugh Kenner: “the narrative idiom need not be the narrator’s.”
Selected Resources
Versions of the Text
TEXT • From Project Gutenberg, single, searchable webpage of the entire novel (from which we draw extensively throughout your course webpage)
TEXT • Multi-page website (from the University of Montana), THE JOYCE PROJECT, which features the full text of each of the novel’s 18 episodes, with plenty of explanations, illustrations, and hyperlinks
TEXT • Multi-page website (from Columbia University), ULYSSES: A MARKED-UP VERSION, which features color-coded versions of the full text of each of the novel’s 18 episodes, with copious explanations
AUDIO • RTÉ Players’ dramatic reading of Ulysses (from which we draw extensively throughout your course webpage)
VIDEO • Seán Walsh’s Bloom, a 2003 film adaptation of Ulysses (available via Kanopy from Georgia Southern Libraries)
Guide Material
TEXT • Multi-page website, ULYSSES GUIDE (from which we draw extensively throughout your course webpage)
TEXT • Ulysses Concordance (from Vanderbilt University)
IMAGES • Multipage website, JOYCE IMAGES, which curates relevant images on an episode-by-episode basis
AUDIO • Reading Ulysses Podcasts: episode-by-episode explorations, from RTÉ, Ireland’s national broadcaster (from which we draw extensively throughout your course webpage)
AUDIO • U22 Podcasts: episode-by-episode explorations, hosted by Catherine Flynn (University of California-Berkeley)
AUDIO • 42-minute discussion of Ulysses from BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time \ Host Melvyn Bragg facilitates a conversation between three literature professors: Steven Connor, Jeri Johnson, and Richard Brown
AUDIO • 45-minute discussion of Ulysses from BBC Radio 4 to celebrate Bloomsday 2012 \ Host Mark Lawson facilitates a conversation between several experts: Anne Fogarty, Declan Kiberd, Claire Kilroy, David Park
AUDIO • Re: Joyce: Frank Delaney’s short audio explanations of elements within Ulysses, from the “Telemachus” chapter (Episode I) through the “Wandering Rocks” chapter (Episode X)
SUMMARY OF STEPHEN DEDALUS’S ACTIVITIES DURING TH., JUN. 16 (AND INTO FR., JUN. 17), 1904
Courtesy of ULYSSES GUIDE
Tu., Jan. 11 • Th., Jan. 13 \ 2022
I • “Telemachus” (I.1-744 • pp. 2-23)
8:00 am • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: Martello tower at Sandycove (coastal suburb, south of Dublin) \ Action: Stephen Dedalus (22 years old) interacts with Malachi (“Buck”) Mulligan, the Englishman Haines, the milkwoman
Tu., Jan. 11 • Course Overview \ Introduction to Joyce and Ulysses
MANDATORY • Read Bruce Bradley’s biographical essay about James Joyce in the online Dictionary of Irish Biography (from the Royal Irish Academy)
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Introduction to the text from the READING ULYSSES series
Th., Jan. 13 • Episode One = “Telemachus”
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • (1) Read the entire “Telemachus” episode • (2) Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Telemachus” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Martello tower; omphalos \ “forty-foot hole”; “scrotumtightening sea” \ Jesuits; Clongowes \ Stephen Dedalus’s “absurd name”; “Latin quarter hat”; “ashplant” \ “servant of two masters” \ “cracked lookingglass of a servant” \ “poor old woman”; “cuckquean”; “Is there Gaelic on you?” \ “the Yeats touch”; “The most beautiful book” \ “Fergus … brazen cars” \ “Dundrum … weird sisters … big wind”
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Telemachus” from the READING ULYSSES series
Tu., Jan. 18 • Th., Jan. 20 \ 2022
II • “Nestor” (II.1-449 \ pp. 24-36)
10:00 am • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: Private school for boys in Dalkey (coastal suburb, south of Dublin) \ Action: Stephen Dedalus teaches about Pyrrhus (who fought against the Romans on behalf of Tarentum, a Greek colony in Italy) \ Then, while receiving his wages, he interacts with the politically opinionated headmaster, Mr. Garrett Deasy
III • “Proteus” (III.1-505 \ pp. 37-51)
11:00 am • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: Sandymount Strand, a Dublin beach, just south of the mouth of the River Liffey \ Action: While walking along the strand, Stephen Dedalus meditates on philosophy, his mother’s death, and his overall state of being; he also observes a dog
Tu., Jan. 18 • Episode Two = “Nestor”
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • (1) Read the entire “Nestor” episode • (2) Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Nestor” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Nestor” from the READING ULYSSES series
Th., Jan. 20 • Episode Three = “Proteus”
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • (1) Read the entire “Proteus” episode • (2) Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Proteus” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Proteus” from the READING ULYSSES series
SUMMARY OF LEOPOLD BLOOM’S ACTIVITIES DURING TH., JUN. 16 (AND INTO FR., JUN. 17), 1904
Courtesy of ULYSSES GUIDE
Tu., Jan. 25 • Th., Jan. 27 \ 2022
IV • “Calypso” (IV.1-551 \ pp. 54-70)
8:00 am • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: 7 Eccles Street (in north-inner-city Dublin), home of Leopold Bloom (38 years old) and his wife, Molly (33) \ Action: Bloom walks from home to purchase the last pork kidney at Dlugacz’s (butcher shop) \ Upon returning, he fries the kidney for breakfast, reads some mail, and interacts with Molly (who is still in bed) \ Then he visits the garden outhouse to defecate \ Bloom and Molly have a 15-year-old daughter, Millicent (“Milly”), who works as an assistant in a photographer’s studio in an Irish provincial town; their son, Rudy, died 10 years, five months earlier, aged 11 days \ Since Rudy’s death, the Blooms have not had sexual relations, such that Bloom has ejaculated inside Molly
V • “The Lotus Eaters” (V.1-572 \ pp. 71-86)
10:00 am • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: Sir John Rogerson’s Quay (riverbank) in south-central Dublin, plus nearby streets \ Action: Occasionally interacting with acquaintances, Bloom visits Westland Row post office; attends a portion of a Roman Catholic mass; purchases lemon soap at Sweny’s (retail pharmacy); and bathes at the Leinster Street Turkish and Warm Baths
Tu., Jan. 25 • Episode Four = “Calypso”
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • (1) Read the entire “Calypso” episode • (2) Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Calypso” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Calypso” from the READING ULYSSES series
Th., Jan. 27 • Episode Five = “The Lotus Eaters”
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • (1) Read the entire “Lotus Eaters” episode • (2) Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Lotus Eaters” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “The Lotus Eaters” from the READING ULYSSES series
Tu., Feb. 1 • Th., Feb. 3 \ 2022
VI • “Hades” (VI.1-1033 \ pp. 87-115)
11:00 am • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: Dublin streets leading to Prospect Cemetery (in a suburb called Glasnevin); then the cemetery itself \ Action: With three companions (including Stephan Dedalus’s father, Simon), Bloom rides in a horse-drawn cab to attend the burial of an acquaintance, Paddy Dignam
Tu., Feb. 1 • Episode Six = “Hades” (First Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Read the entire “Hades” episode
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
Th., Feb. 3 • Episode Six = “Hades” (Second Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Hades” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Hades” from the READING ULYSSES series
Tu., Feb. 8 • Th., Feb. 10 \ 2022
VII • “Aeolus” (VII.1-1075 \ pp. 116-150)
12:00 pm (noon) • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: Near the General Post Office and Nelson’s Pillar in north-central Dublin, the offices of the Freeman’s Journal and Evening Telegraph newspapers • Action: Bloom, an advertising salesman, interacts with several personages; however, he misses a visit to the premises by Stephen Dedalus (who seeks publication of a letter written by Garrett Deasy)
Tu. Feb. 8 • Episode Seven = “Aeolus” (First Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Read the entire “Aeolus” episode
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
Th., Feb. 10 • Episode Seven = “Aeolus” (Second Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Aeolus” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Aeolus” from the READING ULYSSES series
Tu., Feb. 15 • Th., Feb. 17 \ 2022
VIII • “Lestrygonians” (VIII.1-1193 \ pp. 151-183)
1:00 pm • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: streets in central Dublin \ Action: Bloom encounters and chats with an old flame, Josie Breen \ He notices various living personages, statues, advertisements, and examples of commercial activity \ He rejects the restaurant at the Burton Hotel in favor of Davy Byrne’s pub, where he consumes lunch (gorgonzola-cheese sandwich; glass of burgundy wine)
IX • “Scylla and Charybdis” (IX.1-1225 \ pp. 184-218)
2:00 pm • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: The National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, central Dublin \ Action: Stephen Dedalus regales several scholarly acquaintances with a theory that links Shakespeare’s Hamlet with adultery on the part of Shakespeare’s wife \ As Stephen and Buck Mulligan exit the library, Bloom enters it (hoping to find a copy of a certain advertisement in an old newspaper)
Tu., Feb. 15 • Episode Eight = “Lestrygonians”
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • (1) Read the entire “Lestrygonians” episode • (2) Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Lestrygonians” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Lestrygonians” from the READING ULYSSES series
Th., Feb. 17 • Episode Nine = ““Scylla and Charybdis”
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • (1) Read the entire “Scylla and Charybdis” episode • (2) Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Scylla and Charybdis” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Scylla and Charybdis” from the READING ULYSSES series
Tu., Feb. 22 • Th., Feb. 24 \ 2022
X • “The Wandering Rocks” (X.1-1282 \ pp. 219-255)
3:00 pm • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: Various Dublin streets \ Action: Across 19 mini-episodes (or vignettes), several characters move through Dublin \ The first focus is Rev. John Conmee, a Jesuit priest \ During the course of the episode, a cavalcade centered on the Lord Lieutenant (the British monarch’s chief representative in Ireland) makes its way to open the Mirus bazaar, a fundraising event for charity
Tu. Feb. 22 • Episode Ten = “The Wandering Rocks” (First Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Read the entire “Wandering Rocks” episode
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
Th., Feb. 24 • Episode Ten = “The Wandering Rocks” (Second Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Wandering Rocks” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “The Wandering Rocks” from the READING ULYSSES series
Tu., Mar. 1 • Th., Mar. 3 \ 2022
XI • “Sirens” (XI.1-1294 \ pp. 256-291)
4:00 pm • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: the saloon in the bar-restaurant of the Ormond Hotel, on the north bank of the River Liffey, just west of Dublin’s city center \ Action: Bloom dines with Richie Goulding, Stephen Dedalus’s maternal uncle \ Other important characters also enter the distinctly musical saloon, not least Simon Dedalus (Stephen’s father) and Hugh “Blazes” Boylan (Molly Bloom’s lover) \ Two barmaids — Miss Douce (bronze) and Miss Kennedy (gold) — feature
Tu., Mar. 1 • Episode Eleven = “Sirens” (First Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • (1) Read the entire “Sirens” episode • Listen to a discussion of music in Ulysses from the READING ULYSSES series
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
Tu., Mar. 3 • Episode Eleven = “Sirens” (Second Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Sirens” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Sirens” from the READING ULYSSES series
Tu., Mar. 8 • Th., Mar. 10 \ 2022
XII • “Cyclops” (XII.1-1918 \ pp. 292-345)
“Ah! Ow! Don’t be talking! I was blue mouldy for the want of that pint.”
5:00 pm • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: Barney Kiernan’s public house, Little Britain Street, northwest of Dublin’s city center \ Action: Fundamentally narrated by an individual known as the Nameless One (a debt-collector), the episode centers on Bloom’s tense encounter with the eyepatch-wearing Citizen (owner of the dog Garryowen), who spouts Irish nationalist, antisemitic, and xenophobic rhetoric
Tu., Mar. 8 • Episode Twelve = “Cyclops” (First Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • (1) Read the entire “Cyclops” episode
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
Th., Mar. 10 • Episode Twelve = “Cyclops” (Second Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Cyclops” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Cyclops” from the READING ULYSSES series
Tu., Mar. 22 • Th., Mar. 24 \ 2022
XIII • “Nausicaa” (XIII.1-1306 \ pp. 346-382)
8:00 pm • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: A rocky area on Sandymount Strand (where Stephen rested during Episode III) \ Action: Bloom and a woman, Gerty MacDowell, eye each other on the beach, while a religious service occurs in a nearby church, St. Mary, Star of the Sea \ As fireworks explode, Bloom masturbates himself to ejaculation \ After this episode appeared in the July-August 1920 issue of the Little Review, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice began an anti-obscenity campaign against Ulysses, which led to the novel’s being banned in English-speaking countries
Tu., Mar. 22 • Episode Thirteen = “Nausicaa” (First Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • (1) Read the entire “Nausicaa” episode
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
Th., Mar. 24 • Episode Thirteen = “Nausicaa” (Second Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Nausicaa” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Nausicaa” from the READING ULYSSES series
Tu., Mar. 29 • Th., Mar. 31 \ 2022
XIV • “Oxen of the Sun” (XIV.1-1591 \ pp. 383-428)
10:00 pm • Th., Jun. 16, 1904 \ Location: The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, south-central Dublin \ Action: Bloom visits the hospital to check on a friend, Mina Purefoy, who is experiencing a difficult labor \ In a waiting room, Bloom encounters Stephen Dedalus, who is drunkenly carousing with friends, whose number increases with the arrival of Buck Mulligan \ The episode unfolds as a series of 32 parodies of English-literary styles; for example, the fourth parody mirrors the Anglo-Saxon alliterative convention (“Before born babe bliss had”), while the seventeenth deploys the rhetoric of such early-eighteenth-century English periodicals as Tatler and Spectator (“Our worthy acquaintance Mr Malachi Mulligan now appeared”)
Tu., Mar. 29 • Episode Fourteen = “Oxen of the Sun” (First Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Read the entire “Oxen of the Sun” episode
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
Th., Mar. 31 • Episode Fourteen = “Oxen of the Sun” (Second Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Oxen of the Sun” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Oxen of the Sun” from the READING ULYSSES series
Tu., Apr. 5 • Th., Apr. 7 \ 2022
XV • “Circe” (XV.1-4967 \ pp. 429-609)
12:00 am (midnight) • Fr., Jun. 17, 1904 \ Location: Mrs. Bella Cohen’s brothel on Tyrone Street Lower, part of Dublin’s “Monto” (red-light or prostitution) district, which Joyce called Nighttown \ Action: Concerned about his wellbeing, Bloom follows the intoxicated Stephen into Nighttown \ Presented in the form of a phantasmagoric play, the episode moves through a series of fantasies, beginning with an encounter between Bloom and his late father, Rudolph (who committed suicide) \ At one juncture, Bloom intervenes when an English soldier, Private Carr, threatens to fight Stephen
Tu., Apr. 5 • Episode Fifteen = “Circe” (First Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Read the entire “Circe” episode
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
Th., Apr. 7 • Episode Fifteen = “Circe” (Second Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Circe” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Circe” from the READING ULYSSES series
Part III is also known as Nostos
Tu., Apr. 12 • Th., Apr. 14 \ 2022
XVI • “Eumaeus” (XVI.1-1894 \ pp. 612-665)
“suppose he were to pen something out of the common groove …. My experiences, let us say, in a Cabman’s Shelter”
1:00 pm • Fr., Jun. 17, 1904 \ Location: The Cabman’s Shelter, a coffeeshop of sorts, under the Loop Line railway bridge in east-central Dublin, near the Custom House \ Action: To secure coffee and a bun for Stephen, Bloom guides the young man to the wooden shelter, kept by James (“Skin-the-Goat”) Fitzharris, reputed to be a physical-force Irish nationalist \ The two interact with D.B. Murphy, who presents himself as a sailor \ Linking arms with Stephen, Bloom begins walking home
Tu., Apr. 12 • Episode Sixteen = “Eumaeus” (First Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Read the entire “Eumaeus” episode
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
Th., Apr. 14 • Episode Sixteen = “Eumaeus” (Second Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Eumaeus” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Eumaeus” from the READING ULYSSES series
Tu., Apr. 19 • Th., Apr. 21 \ 2022
XVII • “Ithaca” (XVII.1-2332 \ pp. 666-737)
“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit”
2:00 am • Fr., Jun. 17, 1904 \ Location: The kitchen in the Bloom family’s home, 7 Eccles Street, north-central Dublin \ Action: After conversing with him during the walk from the Cabman’s Shelter, Bloom entertains Stephen in the kitchen, making hot cocoa and reminiscing about a mutual acquaintance (the late Mrs. Dante Riordan, Stephen’s sometime nanny) \ Bloom invites Stephen to stay the night, but he refuses \ Prior to Stephen’s departure, the two men urinate, side-by-side, in the star-lit garden \ Alone, Bloom contemplates the day’s expenses, his ideal home, and other matters, before heading to bed \ This episode uses a catechetical (Q&A) style, revealing multiple facts about the characters’ past lives
Tu., Apr. 19 • Episode Seventeen = “Ithaca” (First Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Read the entire “Ithaca” episode
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
Th., Apr. 21 • Episode Seventeen = “Ithaca” (Second Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Ithaca” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Ithaca” from the READING ULYSSES series
Tu., Apr. 26 • Th. Apr. 28 \ 2022
XVIII • “Penelope” (XVIII.1-1609 \ pp. 738-783)
Sometime after 2:30 am • Fr., Jun. 17, 1904 \ Location: The marital bedroom of the Bloom family’s home, 7 Eccles Street, north-central Dublin \ Action: As Bloom sleeps, Molly, a professional soprano, awakens and delivers — across eight “sentences” (marked by paragraph breaks) — a lengthy, steam-of-consciousness monologue \ Among other matters, Molly reflects on the act of sexual infidelity she committed a few hours earlier (mid-afternoon on June 16, 1904) with her agent, Blazes Boylan; past affairs; an upcoming musical tour; and her childhood in Gibraltar (where her father, Brian Tweedy, served as a major in the British army) • During the sixth “sentence,” Molly gets her period \ She concludes the eighth sentence (and the greater text) by recollecting how she accepted Bloom’s proposal marriage on Howth Head, a peninsula east of Dublin: “yes I said yes I will Yes.”
Tu., Apr. 26 • Episode Eighteen = “Penelope” (First Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Read the entire “Penelope” episode
MAJOR FOCUS AREAS • Will Appear Here
Th., Apr. 28 • Episode Eighteen = “Penelope” (Second Session)
MANDATORY BEFORE CLASS • Listen to the dramatic reading of the “Penelope” episode, performed by the RTÉ Players
OPTIONAL LISTENING • Discussion of “Penelope” from the READING ULYSSES series
