Word: ulyssean
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James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann. A Ulyssean portrait, fashioned out of minute detail, of the purposefully enigmatic author, here demystified but not debunked...
...minute factual detail, Ellmann fashions a Ulyssean portrait that has the lived-with, lived-through intensity of a major novel. Never before have people so painfully close to Joyce stepped so personably out of the shadow of his reputation. There is his father John, a barroom wit and tosspot, would-be singer and doctor, who sired ten children and saddled his brood with eleven mortgages. There is Joyce's wife Nora, a Galway girl with a tart tongue and no head for "that chop suey he's writing," as she once said of Finnegans Wake. There is Brother...
More Than Meets the Eye, by Carl Mydans. A crack photographer shelves his camera and relies on the language of the heart to describe his Ulyssean voyages over the battlefronts of the last 2½ decades...
Premier Nicholas Plastiras, the strong man of shaky Greece, found his strength as futile as the walls of Troy. Ulyssean guile, as effective as in the days of the wooden horse, turned him out of office...
Joyce's post-Ulyssean prose style is composed almost entirely of dream-scrambled verbalisms (Anna Livid Plurabelle, Work in Progress) which by some are highly touted as a significant experiment, seem to others merely words in a helter-skelter retreat from significance. Joyce himself used them sparingly in Pomes Penyeach (1927), eschews them entirely in Ecce Puer (1936), his single four-quatrain poem written during the last decade. His later poems, which in general hew to the line of modern Irish minor verse, in their essential scope are no advance over his earlier pseudo-madrigals. All arise from...