Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce
By Frank Delaney
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Podcast Description
ReJOYCE! To commemorate James Joyce's mighty novel, Ulysses, we're launching a podcast. Every week you'll find a five-minute mini-essay from me designed to take you through the novel that's on every list of the greatest books ever written. And as Ulysses runs to some 375,000 words, and I mean to go through it sentence by sentence if I have to, in order to convey the full brilliance of this novel - and the enjoyment to be had from it - I'll be podcasting for some time to come! It's such an absorbing book, it's got diamond mines of references, it's so compassionate, so tender, so moving, so funny - and most of us never know that, because most of us have long been daunted by it. No need to be afraid any more - that is, if you make a habit of listening to these podcasts.
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CleanEpisode 102: Taking the Air | Chapter 3 continues along Sandymount Strand. Wind and waves, Hamlet, and a god of the sea. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 101: Who Is Arius? | Stephen on the nature of the trinity, and the fate of heresiarchs. Contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality. | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 100: Carnival Knowledge | Still on Sandymount Strand. Stephen ponders his own origins and, for the first time, reflects on his father. | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisdode 99: Madam, I'm Adam | Still on the beach, Stephen muses on Eve, bellybuttons, bucklers, and a good deal of poetry. | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 98: Something Binary | Stephen ascribes a crime to the midwife on the beach. A phonecall to the navel of the world. | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 97: Ladies and Liberties | Chapter 3 returns to "normal" narrative for a moment. Women descend to the sea. Swinburne. | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 96a: Reading Lists | In this bonus episode, Frank describes Joyce's reading list, which owed so much to his Catholic education. | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 96: Pentameters and Prosody | Stephen parses the poetry of his own thoughts, and opens his eyes to see if the the world has persisted. It has. | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 95: Walking on Proust | Stephen's thoughts echo his steps as he walks on shells. Frank digresses on Proust. | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 94: Walking Into Eternity | Stephen walks blindly in borrowed boots and trousers. Los demiurgos and William Blake. | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 93: Time And Space | Stephen closes his eyes and walks in the audible world. Nacheinander and Nebeneinander. | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 92: Another Maestro | More thoughts on Aristotle, by way of Berkeley, Johnson, and Boswell. | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 91: Seeing Through | Slightly deeper into chapter 3. Diaphanous reality, and a quick lesson on Aristotle. | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 90: Time for a Change | The beginning of chapter 3, Proteus. Stephen's stream of consciousness takes over as he walks along the beach. | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 89: Bye Bye Nestor | End of Chapter 2: Nestor. A brief summary. | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 88: Befriending Bullocks | Stephen finally pries himself away from Mr. Deasy, and a recurring theme is introduced. | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 87: Women and Slogans | Mr. Deasy's litany of women who ruined things for everybody. | 2/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 86: History's Nightmare | Joyce the symbolist. History may or may not be moving towards God. | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 85: Golden Geese | Stephen reflects vividly upon Mr. Deasy's rant. | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 84a: Joyce Enjoying Joyce | Frank unfolds Joyce's daily life in Zurich, which he in many ways abandoned to live in the Dublin of his Ulysses. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 84: Light and Dark | Mr. Deasy expounds upon the Jews. | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 83: Braggadocio and Bigotry | Mr. Deasy, in addition to his other qualities, is a paranoid and a bigot. | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 82: Foot and Mouth and Modernism | A letter to the editor, deconstructed. | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 81: Pluterperfect Predictions | Reflections on hockey and history. Stephen reads - or at least scans - a letter. | 12/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 80: Runners and Riders | Waiting in Mr. Deasy's office, Stephen is transported by the art on the walls. | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 79: Rocky Roads and Rebels | Stephen fails to warm to Mr. Deasy's arguments. | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 78: Covenants and Croppies | Stephen debates Mr. Deasy - in his own mind, at least. | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 77: Fogies and Torries | Frank unpacks Mr. Deasy's politics. | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 76: Folds and Fillibegs | Mr. Deasy and Stephen continue their exchange, and Frank unpacks the tartan from a painting of a prince. | 11/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 75: Credit and Debt | Stephen tallies his debts - as does Joyce. | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 74: Proud English Words | Mr. Deasy expounds on the power of money; Frank digresses. | 11/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 73: Shy Haste | Stephen is paid, meticulously. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 72a: Joyce the Impressionist | In this bonus episode, Frank draws from Frank Budgen's memoir to illuminate Joyce's painterly grasp of detail and language. | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 72: Shells and Shillings | A little financial arrangement. | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 71: Of Coins and Spoons | As Stephen waits in the headmaster's study, we learn something about its inhabitant. | 10/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 70: At Last, Nestor | A new character enters the stage in the longest and least complicated passage yet. | 10/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 69: Dark Palaces | More on mothers, their love, and secret childhoods. | 10/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 68: A Trio of Dudes | Stephen dwells on ancient philosophers: Averroes, Moses Maimonides, Bruno. | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 67: Dance Music | Moors, math, foxes, and the dead. | 9/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 66: Mother Love | Eyeing the student Sargent, Stephen considers saints, sons, and mothers. | 9/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 65: Out of the Shell | Stephen's reflections on a poor student plumb the limits of a mother's love. | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 64: Blind Man's Bluff | A boy stays after class, and Joyce toys with both authority and identity. | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 63: A Lot of Nonsense | As Stephen's class lets out, a riddle is asked and answered, satisfying nobody. | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 62: God and Caesar | Stephen is a somewhat merciful teacher. Musings on Jesus, government, and riddles. | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 61: In a Paris Library | Stephen's classroom; a library in Paris; Blake and Aristotle; dragons and souls. | 8/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 60a: The Writing of Ulysses | Observations on the author, and the history of Ulysses. | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 60: Living at This Hour | In Stephen's classroom, Joyce brings in Milton. Reflections on drowning. | 8/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 59: A Tile Off the Roof | In Stephen's musings on history, real and potential, Frank finds a recurring Joycean theme. | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 58: A Disappointed Bridge | Stephen muses on first-rate wit and second-hand history. | 7/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 57: A Touch of Class | In Stephen's classroom, four girls' names hint at religion, class, and sex. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 56: The Cookie Crumbles | In Stephen's classroom, Frank muses on the names of cookies and of boys. | 7/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 55: Making the Point - of a Spear | Stephen continues his lesson, and we learn something of both Pyrrhus and Nestor. | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 54: Who is Nestor? | We begin Chapter 2, and find Stephen in the classroom with old battles, radical poets, and the daughters of memory. | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 53a: Happy Bloomsday! | June 16 is Bloomsday, as well as the one-year anniversary of this podcast. | 6/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 53: Horns and Hooves | Mulligan bathes, and Stephen takes his leave. The end of chapter 1. | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 52: A Side of Ribs | Gossip at the swimming hole: an unlikely officer, redheads, supermen, and missing ribs. | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 51: A Little Exposure | Stephen, Mulligan, and Haines encounter bathers, and Joyce employs some foreshadowing with news of Mulligan's brother. | 5/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 50: Weaving The Wind | Stephen fathoms the depths of both Hell and Dublin Bay, and Frank muses upon T. S. Eliot. | 5/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 49: Holy Heresy | Stephen presents us with a roll call of heresiarchs. | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 48a: Matters of Character | In this bonus episode, Frank discusses the four characters we've met so far, along with their real-life antecedents. | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 48: Creeds Not Deeds | Stephen considers the Church. | 5/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 47: Masters and Servants | Stephen claims to serve three masters. | 5/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 46: Freethinking Walking Sticks | Haines asks Stephen about a personal god, and Stephen answers - out loud, briefly, and to himself, at great length. | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 45: Faith and Cigarettes | Stephen and Haines share a moment and a smoke. | 4/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 44: Only Joking | Mulligan capers, versifies, and blasphemes. | 4/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 43: More Fathers and Sons | Haines dwells on Hamlet, and we are reminded of the famous sons of that play, the Odyssey, and - of course - the Bible. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 42: From Noah to Zeno | Mulligan plays with paradox, and we get a foreshadowing of Stephen's father. | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 41: A Drink With Thomas Aquinas | We learn the price of both a rented tower and a lecture on Hamlet. | 3/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 40: Eggs for Sale | Punctuation obfuscates; but we press on, and find significance in Stephen's walking stick. | 3/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 39: A Latin Quarter Hat | Mulligan is full of contradictions. | 3/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 38: Hammocks and Holdfasts | We have a bit of a breather while Stephen and Buck debate what, if anything, Stephen's aphorisms are worth. | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 37: A Touch of Inwit | Stephen's inner voice, a presumption of remorse, and a few words on Ireland's climate. | 2/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 36b: Joyce's Early Life | Literature and lore in Joyce's Dublin. | 2/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 36: Quarts and Florins | In a rare uncomplicated passage, milk is measured, and Frank describes the various types of junkets. | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 35: Mulligan's Milk | Levels of respect: for women, doctors, and the Irish language. | 2/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 34: The Re: Joyce Rap | Frank Delaney offers a special surprise in honor of James Joyce's Birthday. | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 33: Silken Kine | The old woman carries, not just milk, but an allegory of Ireland herself - at least in the eyes of both Stephen and Joyce himself. | 1/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 32: Old Mother Ireland | More scholarship of folklore. The milk arrives, and its bearer is mocked by Mulligan and venerated by Stephen. | 1/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 31: Something Fishy | Mulligan gets mythic, and mocks exactly the sort of thing this podcast is doing. | 1/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 30: Joking Joyce | Petulance for breakfast, "pet" and "kip," and a dirty joke about the tea. | 1/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 29: James Street | A key is found, a door opened, breakfast is served, and various profanities are narrowly avoided, for once. | 12/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 28: The Black Panther Returns | We sit down to a fortified breakfast, and meet Haines and his dream. Also: more blasphemy. | 12/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 27: Who's Serving Whom? | Stephen sees ceremony and symbolism in a shaving bowl. | 12/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 26: The Buck is Back | Stephen is called to breakfast by Buck, and hit up for a loan at the same time. All is not forgiven. | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 25: Prayers for the Dying | We translate Stephen's prayers for the dying from the Latin, and return immediately to both Homer and Shakespeare. | 11/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 24a: 2nd Bonus Edition- Formation | In his second bonus podcast, Frank discusses Joyce's formation on the Island of Saints and Scholars. | 11/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 24: Don't Be Afraid | Stephen's mother is placed in the structure of the cosmos. | 11/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 23: Thanks for the Memory | Stephen, still brooding, summons memories of his mother's life, and we learn something of pantomime. | 11/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 22: Of Beads and Birdcages | Stephen remembers, poetically and tragically, his mother's deathbed. | 11/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 21: Watch The Cloud | As Stephen stands alone on the tower, we muse upon the painterly language of the seascape. | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 20: Fergus and Friends | Mulligan, descending the stairs, trivializes his own insults - and musters considerable literary resources to do so. | 10/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 19: Bacon and Hamlet | Stephen absorbs Mulligan's insults and, standing upon the tower by the sea, once again recalls his Shakespearean precedent. | 10/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 18: Who's The Impossible Person? | Mulligan boldly defends himself against Stephen's charge, and dissects death - and Stephen himself - in the process. | 10/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 17: Ideas and Sensations | We touch on one of the most important themes of Ulysses, and perhaps in all of writing. | 10/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 16: Now You See It, Now You Don't | A few thoughts on the Celtic spirit, and on what, exactly, can be seen from Martello tower. | 9/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 15: The Worst of Mulligan | -- | 9/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 14: What's in a Name? | We dig through some more insults, and ponder the names of characters who don't, in fact, appear in the novel. | 9/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 13: Is it All Greek to You? | A single word produces lessons on the Greek language, politics, and cultural criticism. | 9/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 12a: Baker's Dozen - James Joyce's Origins | Stepping away from the narrative for a moment, Frank gives us a look at Joyce's education, his family, and his conflicted relationship with the Catholic church. | 9/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 12: The Schmoozing Buck | Stephen and Mulligan fence - or, alternately, joust. | 8/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 100 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
The last man who could explain Ulysses
Great writing, great voice. Delaney also has the perfect background to understand Joyce. I hope I live long enough to hear it all.
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