A weekly term-time multidisciplinary reading group in which Joyce's Ulysses is read using a sequence corresponding to the episodes of Homer's Odyssey. While the aim is to read the Odyssey each week as well as the relevant chapter of Ulysses, on-going critical discussions also attempt to encourage a variety of approaches.
Starts: October 2014.
Day and Time: TBC
Venue: Avenue Campus
Contact: Paul Kelly
Recommended reading:
Harari, R. (2002) How James Joyce Made His Name: A Reading of the Final Lacan. Translated by Thurston, L. New York: Other Press.
Kiberd, D. (2010) Ulyssess and Us: The Art of Everyday Living. London: Faber.
McGee, P. (2001) Joyce Beyond Marx: History and Desire in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Rabaté, J.-M. ed. (2004) James Joyce Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Reading Ulysses with Homer Schedule
| Joyce's Ulysses | Homer's Odyssey | |
| Book I: Telemachia | ||
| 1 Telemachus | 1-28 | I & II |
| 2 Nestor | 29-45 | III |
| 3 Proteus | 46-64 | IV |
| Book II: Odyssey | ||
| 4 Calypso | 65-85 | V |
| 13 Nausicaa | 449-499 | VI-VIII |
| 5 Lotus Eaters | 85-107 | IX.i |
| 12 Cyclops | 376-449 | IX.ii |
| 7 Aeolus | 147-189 | X.i |
| 8 Laestrygonians | 190-234 | X.ii |
| 15 Circe | 561-703 | X.iii |
| 6 Hades | 107-147 | XI |
| 11 Sirens | 328-378 | XII.i |
| 10 Wandering Rocks | 280-328 | XII.ii |
| 9 Scylla and Charybdis | 235-280 | XII.iii |
| 14 Oxen of the Sun | 499-561 | XII.iii |
| Book III: Nostos | ||
| 16 Eumaeus | 704-776 | XII-XVII |
| 17 Ithaca | 776-871 | XVIII-XXII |
| 18 Penelope | 871-933 | XXIII & XXIV |