1. Title
1) Structure of Joyce's Ulysses
2) Comparison with Homer's Odyssey
Lesson objectives Teachers' notes

2. Subject: English Literature
Topic:
Joyce's Ulysses
Grade(s):
V
Prior knowledge:
Cross-curricular link(s): Joyce's life and works
Modernism
Lesson notes:
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Lesson objectives Teachers' notes

3. STUCTURE OF THE BOOK
18 EPISODES modelled on equivalent episodes in
Homer's text
PARODY
Hero anti-hero
·exceptional qualities
·can count on ·Imperfect, cannot rely on the kindness of t
the favour of the gods gods
·a stereotyped character ·deep and vital character

4. ULYSSES
In Homer's Odyssey
In Joyce's work
·Leopold Bloom is a middle aged
·a greek soldier returning advertising canvasser.
from the trojan war ·he goes out one morning leaving
·delayed but bizarre his wife in bed and wanders around
perilous events and encounters Dublin.
·he goes to different places and
·survives using wit
meets Stephen Dedalus.
·returns to his home in Ithaca

5. TELEMACUS STEPHEN DEDALUS
·Son of Ulysses ·an indigent pretentious young
·forced to share his writer
house with his mother's ·he is evicted by his
suitors companions from their
who treat him badly temporary home in a coastal
·turn to wise King Nestor tower
for advice ·wanders the streets of Dublin
looking for a house
·meets Leopold Bloom who
takes him to his home

6. PENELOPE MOLLY BLOOM
·Leoplod's unfaithful wife
·Ulysses's faithful wife ·a semi-professional singer
·avoids the advances of her suitors by ·has had several lovers
busying herself with weaving a work which ·while Bloom is out her latest
never finishes lover visits her
·a chaste woman ·very sensual woman

7. AN ODYSSEY IN CONSCIOUSNESS
PLOT MAP
the wanderings of
Voyages into their own Leopold
consciousness Stephen Dedalus
Molly
Joyce records the subject's impressions, reflections, questions,
memories and fantasies as they occur, triggered by physical Interior
sensations or associations of ideas monologue

8. INTERIOR MONOLOGUE
Tries to simulate the workings of the consciuosness in
several ways:
·incomplete sentences
·interrupted syntax
·sudden changes of tense
·thoughts are connected through free associations
·new information interferes with thoughts that are being
elaborated
sense of realism: symbolic system
Joyce does not select
materials , he keeps
everything that passes
through the mind

9. TIME
interior time external time
·dilated ·24 hours on June 16th 1904
·intermingling of
present, past, future

10. A MODERN EPIC
tries to bridge the divide between
the modern world the classical world

11. AN ENCYCLOPEDIC NOVEL
quotations from:
Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare,
Vico, Aquinas
the whole history of Western culture
employs every single rethorical technique
and style in English:
criticised as obscure, ·latin lithurgy
cahotic, incoherent, ·Anglo-Saxon poetry
immoral ·the language of advertising and slogans
·the language of popular magazines
the reader is invited to play parts in
the text like a game