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North London Ulysses

Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 50 episodes

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About this podcast

North London Ulysses is a complete guided reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses, chapter by chapter, page by page. Episodes alternate between reading and analysis. It companions weekly live readings in a north London pub and video versions on You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/@northlondonulysses Part of an educational reading group, this is intended for criticism, discussion, and study and not as an audiobook. James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) is in the public domain in the UK. Recordings include commentary and interpretation and readings are from various editions of Ulysses.

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Unknown Host hosts North London Ulysses, a general show with 50 episodes published.

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2.36 analysing Cyclops 1

Jun 2, 20261h 20mEp. 36S2

This is a really fun episode but with some very serious undertones, that as it progresses, spill into overtones. We meet the citizen, holed up in the pub, an Irish hero, waiting for what the sky would drop by way of drin

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2.35 reading Cyclops 1

Jun 1, 20261h 2mEp. 35S2

Here we begin the Cyclops episode and this time Russell will read about one third of the chapter. As per usual, his accent is diabolical. It's such an interesting episode in which the style changes yet again. We now have

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2.34 analysing Sirens 2

Jun 1, 20261h 12mEp. 34S2

Today we I hope not too controversially, examine the touchy subject of nationalist sentimentality. The second half of the episode centres on the song The Croppy Boy and Ben Dollard's trenchant rendition has the pub audie

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2.33 reading Sirens 2

Jun 1, 202651mEp. 33S2

Last time our song M'Appari concerned love and loss, which of course resonated so powerfully with poor Bloom, sitting disconsolate in the restaurant area, now that Boylan is on his way to see Molly. So much so, he almost

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2.32 analysing Sirens 1

Jun 1, 20261h 33mEp. 32S2

Here we analyse the first half of the Sirens episode. Joyce endeavours to write music with words...well, sort of. If you are technically musical, you might get a kick out of that. For the rest of us, we will work with th

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2.31 reading Sirens 1

May 31, 20261h 1mEp. 31S2

We've a song in our hearts as we move clear of the scary wandering rocks. We just need to breeze past the Sirens, those nice sweet singing mermaids perched on their benign rocks. What could possibly go wrong? Joyce boast

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2.30 analysing Wandering Rocks 3

May 30, 202637mEp. 30S2

Russell analyses vignettes #13-19 of the Wandering Rocks episode. What is the health of the city's arteries? Clean and open, allowing the smooth passage of the populace, the life blood of any city? Or congested and clogg

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Bonus EVS 10.2 Wandering through Dorset Rocks 2

May 30, 202614mS2

Russell concludes the airing of his holiday video, I mean very serious poetry, I mean, well...you know. Now calm down and take your seats for vignettes #13-19, this is supposed to be educative and shall illuminate the Wa

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Bonus EVS 10. Wandering through Dorset Rocks 1

May 30, 202625mS2

Russell is supposed to be on holiday but he just cant keep away. Can't escape his ego at any rate. To keep pace with our discussion of the first twelve Wandering Rocks vignettes, Russell reads his so-called poems, one pe

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2.29 reading Wandering Rocks 2

May 29, 202642mEp. 29S2

This is the reading of vignettes #13-19 of Wandering Rocks. #13 features Stephen, #16 Buck Mulligan and it concludes with #19, one of Russell's favourite passages in the book. Penguin Classic: p. 310 Gabler (can't believ

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2.28 analysing Wandering Rocks 2

May 29, 20261h 2mEp. 28S2

Russell, on location at the seaside, considers vignettes 2-12. Highlights include meeting Blazes Boylan in #5, #6 is largely in Italian, Bloom makes an appearance in #10 and Russell even makes a bold claim for some origi

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2.27 analysing Wandering Rocks 1

May 29, 202638mEp. 27S2

Our tenth episode, Wandering Rocks is like no other in Ulysses. Following nebeneinander (space) as opposed to nacheinander (time), words we learned in episode 3, it follows 19 scenes in various places across Dublin at br

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2.26 reading Wandering Rocks 1

May 29, 20261h 5mEp. 26S2

Our tenth episode, Wandering Rocks is like no other in Ulysses. Following nebeneinander (space) as opposed to nacheinander (time), as we learned in episode 3, it follows 19 scenes in various places across Dublin at broad

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2.25 analysing Scylla & Charybdis 4

May 29, 202645mEp. 25S2

We conclude our analysis of Scylla & Charybdis, a very tricky chapter but somehow we get through it. We may now consider ourselves experts not only in Ulysses but in Shakespeare's entire oeuvre! Yeah, right.. Penguin Cla

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2.24 reading Scylla & Charybdis 3

May 29, 202639mEp. 24S2

Had Shakespeare up to here? Surely room for a little more...and a tilly. Russell concludes the reading of the Scylla & Charybdis episode. Penguin Classic: 263-280 Gabler: 169-179 Project Guttenberg: Coleridge called him

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Bonus EVS 9.1 To Be or Not To Be: That is Existentialism

May 29, 202637mS2

Existentialism. What is it? Is it relevant to Ulysses? To the Scylla chapter especially? If so, why, how and so what? And why aren't you outside getting on with something? This podcast forms part of an educational readin

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2.23 analysing Scylla & Charybdis 3

May 29, 20261h 4m0

Stephen' s library literati lancing lingers. In this podcast we dissect the middle segment of the chapter. It's not in the microscopic detail of the two previous analysis podcasts because armed with all that, we can proc

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2.22 reading Scylla & Charybdis 2

May 28, 202635mEp. 22S2

Russell reads the middle segment of the Scylla episode. Stephen is pushing his Hamlet theory. Having controversially postulated that it is King Hamlet, rather than the Prince that may resonate more with Shakespeare, Step

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2.21 analysing Scylla & Charybdis 2

May 28, 202647mEp. 21S2

Our reading of the first 12 or so pages of this episode (podcast 2.19) is sufficiently challenging as to warrant two analysis podcasts (2.20 and 2.21). The aim is to provide a decent base of understanding to enable much

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2.20 analysing Scylla & Charybdis 1

May 28, 202659mEp. 20S2

Introducing the 'Shakespeare' episode. We are in the National Library of Ireland and Stephen is there to explain his Hamlet theory to the Dublin literati. As a bi-product, if not the main product, he's hoping to dazzle t

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