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| With what weapon is little Harry Hughes killed? | James Joyce: "Ulysses" (queenofsheba) |
penknife. When Leopold and Stephen are together in Eccles Street 7 Stephen sings an anti-Semitic song: little Harry Hughes is beheaded by the Jew's daughter.
| Whose interior monologue can we read in the final chapter? | James Joyce: "Ulysses" (queenofsheba) |
Molly Bloom. Apart from the full stop at the end there aren't any punctuation signs in this chapter, to create the effect of stream of consciousness. Molly thinks back of her lovers. Unlike Homer's Penelope she isn't a faithful wife.
| Whose death is eulogized in 'Ivy Day in the Committee Room'? | James Joyce's 'Dubliners' (kevinatilusa) |
Charles Stuart Parnell. Parnell was an Irish political leader of the late 19th century. Joyce felt the people of Ireland betrayed him by forcing him to resign after being named a claimant in Kitty O'Shea's divorce.
| Who's still alive on Bloomsday? | James Joyce: "Ulysses" (queenofsheba) |
Davy Byrne. Davy Byrne is the pub owner in Duke Street in chapter 8. Robert Emmet is an Irish freedom fighter who died in 1803. Leopold attends Paddy Dignam's funeral in chapter 6. He remembers his dead son Rudy.
| Who was the first and original publisher of James Joyce's "Ulysses"? | Mondo James Joyce (dorian_june) |
Shakespeare and Co.. The owner of this bookstore was Sylvia Beach.
| Who kisses Molly's bottom? | James Joyce: "Ulysses" (queenofsheba) |
Leopold Bloom. Father Corrigan touches her bottom with his hand when she's still a child; she thinks back of this in the beginning of chapter 18. Blazes Boylan is her lover, who hits her on the bottom. Stanley Gardner is another ex-boyfriend mentioned in chapter 18. Leopold kisses his wife's bottom in chapter 17, before he falls asleep.
| Who is the main person in "Ulysses" that Molly Bloom has an affair with? | Mondo James Joyce (dorian_june) |
Blazes Boylan. Blazes Boylan has a song that he wrote that Bloom hums and sings throughout the novel. A few lines being "those girls, those girls, those lovely seaside girls" and "your head it simply swurls".
| Who is Michael Furey? | James Joyce's 'Dubliners' (kevinatilusa) |
A young man who died of pneumonia. We learn about him near the climax of 'The Dead', the last story in the collection. Gabriel Conroy's wife feels Furey may have died for her long ago, and it raises a barrier between them that he cannot overcome.
| Who doesn't belong in this row? | James Joyce: "Ulysses" (queenofsheba) |
Nosey Flynn. Leopold Bloom, Poldy and Henry Flower are one and the same person. Poldy is what Molly calls him, Henry Flower is his alias for his correspondence with Martha. Bloom and Virag (his father's name) also mean "flower". This refers to Homer's Lotus Eaters.
| Who 'dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat'? | James Joyce's 'Dubliners' (kevinatilusa) |
Mrs. Mooney from 'The Boarding House'. A classic line. Mrs. Mooney decided who her daughter was going to marry and when she wanted her to do it, so the only question remaining was how to set it all up.
| While James Joyce was in Italy writing "Ulysses", he wrote a prose poem. This prose poem's title second word was 'Joyce' and the first word was the Italian form of his first name. What was that name? | Mondo James Joyce (dorian_june) |
Giacomo. This prose poem was supposedly written about a young girl Joyce had an affair with, Signora Popper.
| Which one of Joyce's two children had mental problems? | Mondo James Joyce (dorian_june) |
Lucia. Lucia was also crosseyed.
| Which object does Maria first pick from a bowl in a fortunetelling game? | James Joyce's 'Dubliners' (kevinatilusa) |
Clay. The story is titled 'Clay', but telling you that would have been too easy. The clay traditionally represents death, and Maria was herself choosing the death of her genes by remaining a spinster.
| Which book by Giambattista Vico does "Finnegans Wake" get its structure style from? | Mondo James Joyce (dorian_june) |
| Where is Eveline expecting to run off to with Frank in 'Eveline'? | James Joyce's 'Dubliners' (kevinatilusa) |
Argentina. In the end, she is not quite able to leave the family she cares for and remains paralyzed on the docks, unwilling to take the final steps towards Frank.
| Where does the masturbation scene take place? | James Joyce: "Ulysses" (queenofsheba) |
on Sandymount shore. It's one of the reasons why the publication of "Ulysses" was forbidden for several years. Bloom masturbates in chapter 13 while watching Gerty MacDowell, a girl of seventeen. She sees him and lifts up her skirt. Joyce uses metaphors: Bloom's penis is called a Roman candle.
| Where do Leopold and Molly Bloom live? | James Joyce: "Ulysses" (queenofsheba) |
7 Eccles Street. All the places in the novel really exist. 7 Eccles Street was empty in 1904, but Joyce knew someone who someone lived there in 1909. Buck Mulligan lived in the Martello Tower. Tourists still visit these places. 221B Baker Street is where Sherlock Holmes lived in London.
June 16, 1904. The story is completely set in Dublin, and only lasts 24 hours. This means there is unity of place and time, like in Greek tragedy. Aristotle wrote about this in his "Poetics". Bloomsday is celebrated every year in Dublin.
| What's the profession of Zoe Higgins? | James Joyce: "Ulysses" (queenofsheba) |
prostitute. She appears in chapter 15, which has the form of a play. It's not clear whether this scene really happens or just takes place in Bloom's fantasy. When he makes his bill in chapter 17 the cost of the prostitutes are not included. Bloom plays the role of a woman, while a woman plays the role of a man: Bella becomes Bello.
| What's the nickname of Stephen Dedalus? | James Joyce: "Ulysses" (queenofsheba) |
Kinch. Buck Mulligan calls him Kinch in the first chapter. Poldy is Leopold Bloom. Buck's real name is Malachi. Artifoni is Molly's Italian music teacher.
| What's the name of Leopold Bloom's daughter? | James Joyce: "Ulysses" (queenofsheba) |
Milly. He reads her letter in chapter 4. Molly is his wife, Rudy his son. Gerty MacDowell is the girl on Sandymount shore in chapter 13.
| What's the first name of Stephen's father? | James Joyce: "Ulysses" (queenofsheba) |
Simon. Here's a difference with the "Odyssey": Telemachus is the son of Ulysses, but Simon isn't the son of Leopold Bloom. Rudolph Virag is Leopold's father. Malachi is Buck's real first name.
| What were the two collections of poetry released by Joyce in his lifetime entitled? | Mondo James Joyce (dorian_june) |
"Chamber Music" and "Pomes Penyeach". "Chamber Music" being an allusion to the sound of someone going to the bathroom in that time period. "Pomes Penyeach" being literally the price of the book.
| What was the title of the paper that Joyce wrote that was the starting point of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"? | Mondo James Joyce (dorian_june) |
A Portrait of the Artist. The original title of the "Portrait" novel was "Stephen Hero".
| What was the name of the tower featured in "Ulysses" which actually exists and was lived in by Joyce? | Mondo James Joyce (dorian_june) |
Martello. The event which drove Joyce out of this tower for good was when his friend Gogarty and Gogarty's English friend shot at Joyce with a gun when Joyce was trying to sleep.
| What type of race has just occurred in 'After the Race'? | James Joyce's 'Dubliners' (kevinatilusa) |
Auto race. Doyle is a rider in the 2nd place French car, who gambles away his money and his future during a celebration afterwards.
| What time span did Joyce write "Ulysses" in? | Mondo James Joyce (dorian_june) |
1914-1921. The story was originally intended as a short story but grew in scope and size.
| What stylistic device does Joyce often use? Stream of _____________ . | James Joyce: "Ulysses" (queenofsheba) |
consciousness. It means that the thoughts of a character (or the writer himself) are written down. It's a kind of interior monologue based on free association, with a lot of elliptic sentences and grammatical errors. This is one of the things that make "Ulysses" so difficult to read. Another writer who used this device is Virginia Woolf.
| What relation are Miss Kate and Miss Julia to Gabriel Conroy in 'The Dead'? | James Joyce's 'Dubliners' (kevinatilusa) |
His aunts. The two aunts, music teachers both, host the annual Christmas party at which the story opens.
| What journalist writes that a Mr M'Intosh was at the funeral? | James Joyce: "Ulysses" (queenofsheba) |
Joe Hynes. This is a mistake. The man at the funeral in chapter 6 was wearing a Macintosh coat, his name is never mentioned. According to one interpretation the mysterious man in the Macintosh was James Joyce himself.
| What is the title that Joyce gave to his prose poems when he was a young man? | Mondo James Joyce (dorian_june) |
epiphanies. Joyce thought of publishing these prose poems of his in a book but thought better of it and decided to use them in his novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".
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- Somewhere in Finnegans Wake, James Joyce wrote 'Gee each owe tea eye smells fish.' What Joyce was really saying was that the letters G, H, O, T, and I spell FISH. Can you explain why they do? ( goto )
- James Joyce used almost every dialect of English in his work 'Ulysses.' Which one did he leave out purposely and why? ( goto )
- Which “professor”, inspired by James Joyce’s use of linguistic mischief, became a comedy entertainer famous for “fairly tales” such as “Goldyloppers and the Three Bearloaders” and “The Pidey Piper of Hamling”? ( goto )
- Who was the American judge who ruled that James Joyce's "Ulysses" was not obscene, thus allowing its legal sale in the United States eleven years after it was first published in 1922? ( goto )
- Why was June 16th a day to re-Joyce? ( goto )
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Joyce Clyde Hall (1891-1982)? ( goto )
- Joyce Kilmer, Lash LaRue and Damon Runyon have this one word in common. What is it? ( goto )
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