6/24/2023 0 Comments Ulysses authorThese imagined Homers, I’ll argue, are relevant not only to the style and narrative of ‘Eumaeus’ but also to the ways in which we construct (or even perform) readings of Joyce. I hope to contribute to such renewed interest by looking at the strange presence of author-focused Homeric scholarship in the ‘Eumaeus’ episode of Ulysses: ranging from Homer as an idea, a cipher, a compiler, one of many, non-existent, or a genius, to Homer as – in Samuel Butler’s 1897 proposal – ‘a young, headstrong, and unmarried woman’. A recent increased interest in modernist classical reception studies has caused a timely (if contained) revival of discussions dealing with the intertextual relationship between the Odyssey and Ulysses – a topic that had, for a few decades, become pretty unpopular within Joyce studies. In this talk, I will explore how the presence of Homer in the background to James Joyce’s Ulysses provokes and engages these same questions. 8 December 2022, 6pm GMT (in person) A talk by Sophie Corserįrom the ancient reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey to the present day, the name ‘Homer’ has triggered questions about the identity, or even existence, of the author. Our series on the social, political and cultural relevance of the classics to our times continues with a talk on Joyce and the Homeric question and an informal book launch.
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