illustrated portrait of main character Stephen Dedalus

Ulysses

by James Joyce

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Ulysses Questions and Answers

What method of narration is used in Ulysses? How are the internal lives and thoughts of the protagonists presented? How is time shaped in this novel?

In James Joyce's novel Ulysses, what are the elements of comedy, parody, caricature, grotesque, satire, and irony?

Comment on the significance of Ulysses.

What is the plot of Ulysses by James Joyce? What are the main events experienced or actions taken by each of the three protagonists?

How are mythological elements and allusions used in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. 

Discuss Joyce's use of allusion and intertextual references in Ulysses.

Please help me point out  the stylistic and formal originality of Ulysses, focusing on the following passage? Stuck on the pane two flies buzzed, stuck. Glowing wine on his palate lingered swallowed. Crushing in the winepress grapes of Burgundy. Sun's heat it is. Seems to a secret touch telling me memory. Touched his sense moistened remembered. Hidden under wild ferns on Howth. Below us bay sleeping: sky. No sound. The sky. The bay purple by the Lion's head. Green by Drumleck. Yellowgreen towards Sutton. Fields of undersea, the lines faint brown in grass, buried cities. Pillowed on my coat she had her hair, earwigs in the heather scrub my hand under her nape, you'll toss me all. O wonder! Coolsoft with ointments her hand touched me, caressed: her eyes upon me did not turn away. Ravished over her I lay, full lips full open, kissed her mouth. Yum. Softly she gave me in my mouth the seedcake warm and chewed. Mawkish pulp her mouth had mumbled sweetsour of her spittle. Joy: I ate it: joy. Young life, her lips that gave me pouting. Soft, warm, sticky gumjelly lips. Flowers her eyes were, take me, willing eyes. Pebbles fell. She lay still. A goat. No-one. High on Ben Howth rhododendrons a nannygoat walking surefooted, dropping currants. Screened under ferns she laughed warmfolded. Wildly I lay on her, kissed her: eyes, her lips, her stretched neck beating, woman's breasts full in her blouse of nun's veiling, fat nipples upright. Hot I tongued her. She kissed me. I was kissed. All yielding she tossed my hair. Kissed, she kissed me. Me. And me now. Stuck, the flies buzzed. His downcast eyes followed the silent veining of the oaken slab. Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires. Can see them library museum standing in the round hall, naked goddesses. Aids to digestion. They don't care what man looks. All to see. Never speaking, I mean to say to fellows like Flynn. Suppose she did Pygmalion and Galatea what would she say first? Mortal! Put you in your proper place. Quaffing nectar at mess with gods, golden dishes, all ambrosial. Not like a tanner lunch we have, boiled mutton, carrots and turnips, bottle of Allsop. Nectar, imagine it drinking electricity: gods' food. Lovely forms of woman sculped Junonian. Immortal lovely. And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine. They have no. Never looked. I'll look today. Keeper won't see. Bend down let something fall see if she. Dribbling a quiet message from his bladder came to go to do not to do there to do. A man and ready he drained his glass to the lees and walked, to men too they gave themselves, manly conscious, lay with men lovers, a youth enjoyed her, to the yard.

Can Joyce's Ulysses be analyzed from a postmodern point of view? What postmodern features are found in the text?

How does James Joyce describe Ulysses in his book? How does Joyce's description differ from Homer's?  

In James Joyce's novel Ulysses, what does Stephen think, feel, see, hear, and smell in Episode Three: “Proteus”?

What are the Symbolic elements and universal messages in the novel?

Analyze a short passage of Ulysses and show how the narrative technique of the novel works.

Please analyse this extract from episode 4 of Joyce's Ulysses from the words "Mr Leopold Broom ate with relish.." to " No, she can jump me".

Could you help me understand the universal message of Ulysses by James Joyce?

How did mythology influence Joyce in Ulysses?  

What are some of Stephen Dedalus's personality characteristics in Ulysses?

What are the linguistic significances and symbolism in James Joyce’s Ulysses?

How does Joyce's use of multiple perspectives inform us about the relationship between individuals and the city?

I have not been able to see greatness in James Joyce's Ulyssses.  What makes his Ulysses so great? The story does not seem to be that good.

In Ulysses, does Joyce cater to John Barth's idea of "an inclination to subjective distortion to point up the evanescence of the social world of the nineteenth-century bourgeoise"?

What are symbolic elements and universal messages in Ulysses?

In Ulysses, the central perspective shifts from Stephen to Leopold Bloom. Describe the ways in which the two characters are introduced to the readers.

Please explain Ulysses.

What political references does Joyce write about in Ulysses?   

Discuss the three principal characters of this novel. What types of attitude do they embody?

Part I of Ulysses is called "Telemachus," so what are the names of the other parts, and why aren't they titled in my text of Ulysses?

Discuss the use of letters and their significance in narrative technique in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce.

Hi, could you discuss symbols in this novel (briefly)? potted meat, the gold cup horserace, potato talisman, latin quarter hat

What is the feminine perspective in the "Penelope" episode of Ulysses by James Joyce?