Episode 15: Circe
In this hallucinatory episode, in which everything that has happened up to this point in Ulysses is reimagined, Bloom and Stephen wander in...
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U22 is about readers' journeys through Ulysses, James Joyce’s modernist epic about the lives of ordinary people on a day in Dublin in 1904. The podcast anticipates and accompanies a reader-f...
In this hallucinatory episode, in which everything that has happened up to this point in Ulysses is reimagined, Bloom and Stephen wander in...
Set in a maternity hospital, "Oxen" parodies the development of English prose. A celebration of maternity or a rival creative feat? Joyce ca...
A woman, a man, a beach at twilight, and at least one orgasm: but what exactly happens? Is Gerty MacDowell brainwashed or liberated by the w...
In Barney Kiernan's pub, what does belonging look like? What do language and cliché have to do with self-determination, nationalism, and inc...
Surrounded by singing men in the Ormond, Bloom experiences the consolations and dangers of music as he watches Blazes Boylan knock back a dr...
This episode presents readers with nineteen seemingly random vignettes around Dublin featuring a mass of characters connected only slightly...
Why does Joyce associate Stephen's conversation in the National Library of Ireland with such a dangerous Homeric episode? Scylla and Charybd...
As we track Bloom's wanderings in this lunchtime episode, we consider the relationship between food and power. We talk about food imagery, c...
This episode centers on the Evening Telegraph offices where men gather to talk about journalism, tell jokes, mock political speeches, and ce...
In Glasnevin cemetery for the funeral of Paddy Dignam, Bloom thinks "in the midst of death, we are in life." We think about different kinds...
Modelled on Odysseus's encounter with the eaters of the narcotic lotus flower, this episode explores how people lose themselves. With Maud E...
Enter Leopold Bloom. We talk about his odd ways and his responses to a range of concealed things in "Calypso," from Blazes Boylan's letter t...
"Proteus," the third episode of Ulysses , is notoriously difficult. We explore different responses to that difficulty as we talk with Ilaria...
Exploring "Nestor," the second episode of Ulysses , we think about teaching as farce and learning as historical trauma and collaboration. We...
In our first episode, we talk about how Ulysses begins. We're joined by Karen Lawrence, President of the Huntington Library, John Higgins of...