Is it possible to go into this book without knowing anything about it and "get it" without reading analysis of it first or afterwards?
Is it possible to go into this book without knowing anything about it and "get it" without reading analysis of it first...
Mason Morris
Kevin Walker
What do you mean by "getting it"?
You'd better be acquainted with this:
Easy mode: Dubliners, Portrait, the Odyssey and Hamlet.
Nightmare mode: Easy mode plus the Iliad and the Aeneid, the complete works of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Defoe and Ibsen, the catechism of the Catholic Church, The Divine Comedy, The Canterbury Tales, Faust parts I and II, the English Romantic poets, Yeats, Beowulf, Morte d'Arthur, Charles Dickens, Henry James, a working knowledge of Latin, Italian and Irish, in-depth knowledge of Irish mythology, history and popular culture around the turn of the century and way more.
Zachary Price
Read this first.
The novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel.
Wyatt Carter
How come the ones always about to read Ulysses are the severely under-read?
So did I. You'll be fine as long as the prose does it for you.
David Clark
>Nightmare mode: Easy mode plus the Iliad and the Aeneid, the complete works of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Defoe and Ibsen, the catechism of the Catholic Church, The Divine Comedy, The Canterbury Tales, Faust parts I and II, the English Romantic poets, Yeats, Beowulf, Morte d'Arthur, Charles Dickens, Henry James, a working knowledge of Latin, Italian and Irish, in-depth knowledge of Irish mythology, history and popular culture around the turn of the century and way more.
If the story can't stand on it's own without all this, doesn't it kind of suck?
Ayden Rodriguez
you can probably read the first 6 chapters fairly easily though you might miss a few allusions to Irish History and classical literature
around chapter 7, Joyce really starts fucking around with form
I definitely needed help from the Gilbert guide to Ulysses with the Oxen of the Sun chapter
Tyler Gray
No it just means it's not written for book plebs like you.
Anthony Brown
>If the story can't stand on it's own without all this
the story's nothing much
an Irish Jew goes about his day while his wife cucks him but he helps some drunk punk smartass home after a couple redcoats gave the punk kid a beating
Samuel Reed
What about this one?
Daniel Brown
Yes
Just disregard the political (what difference do the specifics make? none)