1. Ulysses James Joyce, 1922 Andrea Zanolla VB

2. Key facts → Title: “Ulysses” parodic title death of the hero → Writer: James Joyce (1882-1941) → Genre: modern novel → Date of first publication: 1922 Time: 8:00 a.m., June 16, 1904 – approximately 3:00 a.m., June 17, 1904 → Setting Place: Dublin and its surrounding suburbs (Ireland) → Point of reference: parallel with Homer's “Odyssey” → Protagonists: Stephen Dedalus Leopold Bloom Molly Bloom → Themes: the search for a father, the search for a son and the exile → Narrative technique: stream of consiousness techniques and mytichal method → Language: language of senses and impressions

3. Structure of the novel → Consists of 18 chapters the episode of Homer's “Odyssey” praises the hero → Is divided into 3 parts: 1) Telemachia (chapters 1-3) 2) Odyssey (chapters 4-15) 3) Nostos (chapters 16-18) → Plot: events of one day in Dublin (June 16, 1904) and movements of the main characters of the novel → Description of the characters: Leopold Bloom Ulysses a Jewish adversting agent a common and sensual man Stephen Dedalus Telemachus a young man with literary ambitions in search for spiritual values Molly Bloom Penelope Leopold's unfaithful wife represents the summary of all women in the novel

4. Style and Techinque → Third-person narrator → Everyday language without punctuation and syntax makes the circolarity of the stream of consciusness appeals to the senses → Free direct style → Stream of consciusness no chronological order associations of ideas → Mythical method

5. What is the mythical method? → T.S. Eliot defines it in his essay “Ulysses, Order, and Myth” → A greater partecipation of the reader must interpret and order the facts QUEST → Decrease of the narrator's voice → The mythical method replaces the narrative method connects past and present Aim of J. Joyce → Praise of anti-heroe eroes don't exist → Search of a model to be followed in the future → Lack of eroism, values, love, faith, courage of his charcters ancient models, lost in a modern world