{"id":417,"date":"2016-10-27T06:09:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T06:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/?p=417"},"modified":"2016-10-27T06:09:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T06:09:26","slug":"artmakers-and-nationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/uncategorized\/artmakers-and-nationality\/","title":{"rendered":"Artmakers and Nationality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artmaking in Ulysses<\/em> seems to be inexorably pulled toward the domain of the political, and the Circe episode in many ways represents the continuation as well as the vexation of this theme. The episode contains Bloom’s surprising declaration that he is, in fact, an “author-journalist.” (15.802) This at once represents a grandiose overstatement of Bloom’s actual profession in advertising, as well as a window into what he imagines to be his own artistic sensibilities. Interestingly, what follows another assertion from Bloom, that he is “connected with the British and Irish press.” (15.804-5) Almost immediately after Bloom’s claim to international connections, Philip Beaufoy, author of episode IV’s prize Titbit<\/em> story, appears to revile Bloom as a plagiarist. Later in the episode, the confounding of Shakespeare and Martin Cunningham creates another connection. Cunningham and Shakespeare seem to be confused based on the psychic dominance of their wives, a qualification that Bloom surely shares. Thus Bloom, the “author-journalist” with British connections transitively collides with Shakespeare, the British writer who dominates the mind of Stephen Daedalus. The episode completes the domination of Irish art with the introduction of physical violence. Despite Bloom’s protests that Steven is “a gentleman, a poet,” (15.4488) the British soldier Private Compton responds, “We don’t give a bugger who he is,” (15.4495) and ultimately knocks Steven to the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artmaking in Ulysses seems to be inexorably pulled toward the domain of the political, and the Circe episode in many ways represents the continuation as well as the vexation of this theme. The episode contains Bloom’s surprising declaration that he is, in fact, an “author-journalist.” (15.802) This at once represents a grandiose overstatement of Bloom’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}