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Bloom's Inferno: James Joyce's Hidden Dantean Landscape In The "Hades" Episode Of Ulysses, Barry Devine
Bloom's Inferno: James Joyce's Hidden Dantean Landscape In The "Hades" Episode Of Ulysses, Barry Devine
Barry Devine
James Joyce clearly used Homer’s Odyssey and its characters as a model for "Hades"; he makes that explicit on many occasions. Dante's Inferno, however, was another model, perhaps the original model, for this episode. In Homer's epic, Odysseus stops at the entrance to Hades and the spirits come to him. At no point does Odysseus actually enter the underworld, pass through various levels, cross trecherous rivers, and emerge from the other side, but Dante’s pilgrim does, and so does Joyce’s main character, Leopold Bloom. Bloom, encounters all nine levels of Dante's hell (in order), crosses four rivers, and emerges from …
“Daren’T Joke About The Dead”: James Joyce’S Concerted Effort To Include Humor In The “Hades” Episode Of Ulysses, Barry Devine
“Daren’T Joke About The Dead”: James Joyce’S Concerted Effort To Include Humor In The “Hades” Episode Of Ulysses, Barry Devine
Barry Devine
It is now widely accepted that during the revisions between The Little Review and the publication of Ulysses, Joyce went back over many episodes to strengthen the Homeric allusions. He added dozens of flower references to the “Lotus Eaters” episode, food references to “Lestrygonians,” and even more death and underworld allusions to “Hades.” At the same time, however, he was also doing much more than just multiplying the connections to Homer. He also added many allusions to popular culture, Irish nationalism, historical figures, and many more. These new allusions have nothing to do with Homer, but Joyce collected pages of …
“Daren’T Joke About The Dead”: James Joyce’S Concerted Effort To Include Humor In The “Hades” Episode Of Ulysses, Barry Devine
“Daren’T Joke About The Dead”: James Joyce’S Concerted Effort To Include Humor In The “Hades” Episode Of Ulysses, Barry Devine
Barry Devine
It is now widely accepted that during the revisions between The Little Review and the publication of Ulysses, Joyce went back over many episodes to strengthen the Homeric allusions. He added dozens of flower references to the “Lotus Eaters” episode, food references to “Lestrygonians,” and even more death and underworld allusions to “Hades.” At the same time, however, he was also doing much more than just multiplying the connections to Homer. He also added hundreds of references to Dublin popular culture, Irish nationalism, historical figures, and more. These new allusions have nothing to do with Homer, but Joyce collected pages …
Capturing A Pivotal Moment: The Genesis Of ‘Towards Break Of Day’ By William Butler Yeats, Barry Devine
Capturing A Pivotal Moment: The Genesis Of ‘Towards Break Of Day’ By William Butler Yeats, Barry Devine
Barry Devine
William Butler Yeats and his wife, George, were married in October, 1917. Their marriage marks a pivotal point in Yeats’s writing career. This is the point at which he began his philosophical work, A Vision, and at which he wrote many of the poems in his collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. The drafting of one poem in particular captures elements of the pre-marriage and post-marriage periods of his life. The Yeats who begins to write ‘Towards Break of Day’ is a very different man than the one who completed it, and the poem itself goes through drastic changes as …