{"id":255,"date":"2016-09-27T02:47:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/?p=255"},"modified":"2016-09-27T02:47:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:47:20","slug":"ulysses-as-ascendant-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/uncategorized\/ulysses-as-ascendant-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulysses as Ascendant Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout <em>Ulysses<\/em>, we are exposed to Joyce&#8217;s subtle conceptions and criticisms of religion. Episode 9 features an intriguing conflation of religiosity and Shakespearean discussion. Early in the episode, the writing of <em>Hamlet<\/em> is considered by the men to be a force that brings their &#8220;minds into contact with the eternal wisdom&#8221; (52, 152). Immediately, Shakespeare&#8217;s literature is depicted as something divine, Shakespeare being an exalted progenitor of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>However, as the episode progresses, the topic of fatherhood is broached and Stephen offers some particularly scathing words, &#8220;A father\u2026is a necessary evil&#8221; (828, 170). Going further, Stephen makes the claim, &#8220;Paternity may be a legal fiction. Who is the father of any son that any son should love him or he any son?&#8221; (844-845, 170). Essentially, Stephen argues that fathers and sons don&#8217;t have the physical and emotional bonds that a mother and a son would have. They two masculine figures exist to be in tacit conflict with one another, one waning, and one taking the other&#8217;s place.<\/p>\n<p>From past class discussions regarding the history of <em>Ulysses <\/em>publication, we know that Stephen was viewed as a sort of literary alter ego of Joyce. If Stephen is perceived as a written representation of Joyce, and if Shakespeare is described as a father of English writing, do you think Joyce is to some degree challenging the paternalistic legacy of Shakespeare? Do you think Joyce is using <em>Ulysses<\/em> to make a claim of ascendency, experimental modernist prose finding its place in the wake of the classical verses of <em>Hamlet<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout Ulysses, we are exposed to Joyce&#8217;s subtle conceptions and criticisms of religion. Episode 9 features an intriguing conflation of religiosity and Shakespearean discussion. Early in the episode, the writing of Hamlet is considered by the men to be a force that brings their &#8220;minds into contact with the eternal wisdom&#8221; (52, 152). Immediately, Shakespeare&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}