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RMB ([personal profile] changeling67) wrote2016-01-04 04:33 pm
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Ulysses - Preparation Ground



Back to work on Ulysses - Joyce is a piece of work, isn't he? Decided that I will concentrate on 'Exploring the theme of Sex' in Ulysses - because there is so much of it.  Either 'repressed turned strange' or 'freaky exhibitionism'. Though reading through the 'Lestrigonian' chapter reminds me a lot of his letters with Nora Barnacle which had the class thoroughly silenced (somethings cannot be 'unread'). My former lecturer (and now firm friend) is not pro Joyce and I thought of her when I saw this cover


A lot of hallucinagenic 'modernist' stuff which I have to not be so 'anachronistic' about - as in 'stop jumping to conclusions of the audience who reads this'.  I wonder why the university keep giving us assignments on sex? Because most students will get interested, or that the lecturers want to be titivated on a long winter's night? Or a good laugh (I am not sure which)?  I have to write about Lolita straight after this, which doesn't help.  Right now, I am trying to decipher Nausicaa and Circe and make it last 3,000 words.  

James Joyce, you are one strange cookie.
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[identity profile] rosegardenfae.livejournal.com 2016-01-04 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)

I went to college in the 90's. I graduated from high school in 1964. While at the University of MO, I don't remember that we talked about sex a lot. I was doing a major in English and a minor in Womens' Studies. I like your observations on titillating profs and keeping students interested.

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[identity profile] calico-pye.livejournal.com 2016-01-04 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I do wonder why they set these tasks - one of our lecturers has starry eyes when she talks about Ezra Pound. I fail to see the attraction myself.

[identity profile] bluegerl.livejournal.com 2016-01-05 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
My old schools considered James Joyce the worst thing since Lady Chatterly... but despite all things, we managed! (Except that I never DID find these letters until I gained this ripe old age, and have SO enjoyed the enthusiasm with which he writes. I'm so relieved that humans WERE so deliciously human in days past... wish I'd known about it!

So.. Ulysses is one long handjob... my my my!

[identity profile] calico-pye.livejournal.com 2016-01-05 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
More like 'O...O...O!'

LOL :-)
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