Patrick O'Sullivan and C. Collard (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781908343352
- eISBN:
- 9781800342682
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781908343352.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and, according to Aristotle, formative for tragedy. By the 5th century BC at Athens, it shared most of ...
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Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and, according to Aristotle, formative for tragedy. By the 5th century BC at Athens, it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for at the annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only together with, and after, the three tragedies which each poet was required to present in competition. It was in contrast with them. Euripides' Cyclops is the only satyr play which survives complete. Its title alone signals its content, Odysseus' escape from the one-eyed, man-eating monster, familiar from Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey. Because of its uniqueness, Cyclops could afford only a limited idea of satyric drama's range, which the many but brief quotations from other authors and plays barely coloured. Our knowledge and appreciation of the genre have been greatly enlarged, however, by recovery since the early 20th century of considerable fragments of Aeschylus, Euripides' predecessor, and of Sophocles, his contemporary — but not, so far, of Euripides himself. This book provides English readers for the first time with all the most important texts of satyric drama, with facing-page translation, substantial introduction and detailed commentary. It includes not only the major papyri, but very many shorter fragments of importance, both on papyrus and in quotation, from the 5th to the 3rd centuries; there are also one or two texts whose interest lies in their problematic ascription to the genre at all. The intention is to illustrate it as fully as practicable.Less
Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and, according to Aristotle, formative for tragedy. By the 5th century BC at Athens, it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for at the annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only together with, and after, the three tragedies which each poet was required to present in competition. It was in contrast with them. Euripides' Cyclops is the only satyr play which survives complete. Its title alone signals its content, Odysseus' escape from the one-eyed, man-eating monster, familiar from Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey. Because of its uniqueness, Cyclops could afford only a limited idea of satyric drama's range, which the many but brief quotations from other authors and plays barely coloured. Our knowledge and appreciation of the genre have been greatly enlarged, however, by recovery since the early 20th century of considerable fragments of Aeschylus, Euripides' predecessor, and of Sophocles, his contemporary — but not, so far, of Euripides himself. This book provides English readers for the first time with all the most important texts of satyric drama, with facing-page translation, substantial introduction and detailed commentary. It includes not only the major papyri, but very many shorter fragments of importance, both on papyrus and in quotation, from the 5th to the 3rd centuries; there are also one or two texts whose interest lies in their problematic ascription to the genre at all. The intention is to illustrate it as fully as practicable.
Ralph M. Rosen
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195309966
- eISBN:
- 9780199789443
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195309966.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter analyzes various characters from Greek myth who illustrate the dynamics of satirical interaction. It examines in particular the complicated tradition that pits Odysseus and the Cyclops ...
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This chapter analyzes various characters from Greek myth who illustrate the dynamics of satirical interaction. It examines in particular the complicated tradition that pits Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus against each other. The versions found in Homer, Theocritus (6 and 11), Euripides' and Philoxenus' Cyclops are discussed. The argument here develops some of the principles articulated in Chapter 3, that an audience's perception of what constitutes satire will depend on the ways in which poets manipulate narratological perspective and moral pretenses of their characters.Less
This chapter analyzes various characters from Greek myth who illustrate the dynamics of satirical interaction. It examines in particular the complicated tradition that pits Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus against each other. The versions found in Homer, Theocritus (6 and 11), Euripides' and Philoxenus' Cyclops are discussed. The argument here develops some of the principles articulated in Chapter 3, that an audience's perception of what constitutes satire will depend on the ways in which poets manipulate narratological perspective and moral pretenses of their characters.
Patrick R. Mullen
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199746699
- eISBN:
- 9780199950270
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199746699.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter examines Joyce’s inscription of Roger Casement in the “Cyclops” episode of Ulysses. In particular, it argues that Joyce figures through Casement both a complex critique of British ...
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This chapter examines Joyce’s inscription of Roger Casement in the “Cyclops” episode of Ulysses. In particular, it argues that Joyce figures through Casement both a complex critique of British imperialism that avoids the pitfalls of reactionary nationalism and a progressive model of national affiliation and belonging. The chapter suggests that Casement’s homoerotic writings and his “Speech from the Dock” are important, if oblique, references for Joyce, who glimpses in them a progressive worldview.Less
This chapter examines Joyce’s inscription of Roger Casement in the “Cyclops” episode of Ulysses. In particular, it argues that Joyce figures through Casement both a complex critique of British imperialism that avoids the pitfalls of reactionary nationalism and a progressive model of national affiliation and belonging. The chapter suggests that Casement’s homoerotic writings and his “Speech from the Dock” are important, if oblique, references for Joyce, who glimpses in them a progressive worldview.
Deborah Levine Gera
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199256167
- eISBN:
- 9780191719578
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256167.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter analyses the encounter between Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus in Book 9 of the Odyssey, in terms of the pair’s linguistic capabilities. It states that the discussion of this episode ...
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This chapter analyses the encounter between Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus in Book 9 of the Odyssey, in terms of the pair’s linguistic capabilities. It states that the discussion of this episode points to several recurring themes in the book: the opposing views of society as either deteriorating from a golden age of long ago or progressing from primitive beginnings, the importance of society and technical skills for linguistic development, the relation between language and diet, speech as a unique human capacity, and the meaning of names. It demonstrates how that many implicit assumptions about language and civilisation held by the Greeks are already found in this passage of Homer.Less
This chapter analyses the encounter between Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus in Book 9 of the Odyssey, in terms of the pair’s linguistic capabilities. It states that the discussion of this episode points to several recurring themes in the book: the opposing views of society as either deteriorating from a golden age of long ago or progressing from primitive beginnings, the importance of society and technical skills for linguistic development, the relation between language and diet, speech as a unique human capacity, and the meaning of names. It demonstrates how that many implicit assumptions about language and civilisation held by the Greeks are already found in this passage of Homer.
Jean-Luc Nancy
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823263387
- eISBN:
- 9780823266333
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823263387.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter warns of possible errors in the future. Fukushima is the apocalypse to what was Hiroshima. By using atomic power, it becomes possible to dissuade confrontation, and hail this as a ...
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This chapter warns of possible errors in the future. Fukushima is the apocalypse to what was Hiroshima. By using atomic power, it becomes possible to dissuade confrontation, and hail this as a strategy toward achieving peace, toward balancing and stopping terror. But this weapon of dissuasion begets in others also the desire to own and possess such weapons. This use of atomic weapons does not enhance relationships because there is no kind of relationship that exists to speak when everything is confronted with nuclear weapons as deterrents. It is not like David and Goliath, nor Ulysses and the Cyclops. This kind of balance destroys any and all relationships as there is no longer confrontation, as it is already so much dependent on human will to command. A little mistake or the proverbial mad scientist can end it all. This situation is therefore beyond anything calculable as the effects of the decision itself would be immense.Less
This chapter warns of possible errors in the future. Fukushima is the apocalypse to what was Hiroshima. By using atomic power, it becomes possible to dissuade confrontation, and hail this as a strategy toward achieving peace, toward balancing and stopping terror. But this weapon of dissuasion begets in others also the desire to own and possess such weapons. This use of atomic weapons does not enhance relationships because there is no kind of relationship that exists to speak when everything is confronted with nuclear weapons as deterrents. It is not like David and Goliath, nor Ulysses and the Cyclops. This kind of balance destroys any and all relationships as there is no longer confrontation, as it is already so much dependent on human will to command. A little mistake or the proverbial mad scientist can end it all. This situation is therefore beyond anything calculable as the effects of the decision itself would be immense.
G. O Hutchinson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199285686
- eISBN:
- 9780191713958
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199285686.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval
The colourful career of the Cyclops in literary history strikingly exemplifies the complexities of Homeric reception. This chapter illustrates the value of narratological strategies, which have made ...
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The colourful career of the Cyclops in literary history strikingly exemplifies the complexities of Homeric reception. This chapter illustrates the value of narratological strategies, which have made such a vast contribution to the understanding of classical literature. It also suggests the value of extending narratology, and integrating it further with other types of criticism.Less
The colourful career of the Cyclops in literary history strikingly exemplifies the complexities of Homeric reception. This chapter illustrates the value of narratological strategies, which have made such a vast contribution to the understanding of classical literature. It also suggests the value of extending narratology, and integrating it further with other types of criticism.
Patrick O’Sullivan and Christopher Collard (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781908343352
- eISBN:
- 9781800342682
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781908343352.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter introduces tragedy, comedy and satyr play as the three major dramatic artforms produced in the Greek world from the late sixth century BC onward. It focuses on Euripides' Cyclops, which ...
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This chapter introduces tragedy, comedy and satyr play as the three major dramatic artforms produced in the Greek world from the late sixth century BC onward. It focuses on Euripides' Cyclops, which retells the famous Homeric story of Odysseus' blinding of the man-eating, one-eyed monster named Polyphemus. It also explains how Cyclops survives as part of an alphabetical group of Euripidean plays in the Laurentian manuscript. The chapter discusses the bland dismissal of Cyclops as of little dramatic merit and as having no real place in a study of Euripides' dramatic art. It mentions Homer's Book 9 of Odyssey as the most important literary precedent to Cyclops.Less
This chapter introduces tragedy, comedy and satyr play as the three major dramatic artforms produced in the Greek world from the late sixth century BC onward. It focuses on Euripides' Cyclops, which retells the famous Homeric story of Odysseus' blinding of the man-eating, one-eyed monster named Polyphemus. It also explains how Cyclops survives as part of an alphabetical group of Euripidean plays in the Laurentian manuscript. The chapter discusses the bland dismissal of Cyclops as of little dramatic merit and as having no real place in a study of Euripides' dramatic art. It mentions Homer's Book 9 of Odyssey as the most important literary precedent to Cyclops.
Patrick O’Sullivan and Christopher Collard (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781908343352
- eISBN:
- 9781800342682
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781908343352.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter talks about the survival of Euripides' Cyclops as the only complete satyr play that is a secondary consequence of a remarkable accident. It investigates the principal medieval manuscript ...
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This chapter talks about the survival of Euripides' Cyclops as the only complete satyr play that is a secondary consequence of a remarkable accident. It investigates the principal medieval manuscript tradition of Euripides that carries ten complete plays, including the almost certainly inauthentic Rhesus. It recounts how nine more plays that was preserved in just one manuscript and its derivatives descended from a very ancient edition. It also mentions the famous Aldine Euripides of 1503 as the first printed edition containing Cyclops. The chapter looks at the standard critical edition of Euripides by J. Diggle. It cites the accomplished late Byzantine scholar of Greek drama named Demetrius Triclinius, who revised the initial transcript of Cyclops against its now lost exemplar.Less
This chapter talks about the survival of Euripides' Cyclops as the only complete satyr play that is a secondary consequence of a remarkable accident. It investigates the principal medieval manuscript tradition of Euripides that carries ten complete plays, including the almost certainly inauthentic Rhesus. It recounts how nine more plays that was preserved in just one manuscript and its derivatives descended from a very ancient edition. It also mentions the famous Aldine Euripides of 1503 as the first printed edition containing Cyclops. The chapter looks at the standard critical edition of Euripides by J. Diggle. It cites the accomplished late Byzantine scholar of Greek drama named Demetrius Triclinius, who revised the initial transcript of Cyclops against its now lost exemplar.
Patrick O’Sullivan and Christopher Collard (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781908343352
- eISBN:
- 9781800342682
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781908343352.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter offers a Greek text and a modestly annotated translation of the more substantial fragmentary plays of Euripides. It explores single fragments of varying length that is important for ...
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This chapter offers a Greek text and a modestly annotated translation of the more substantial fragmentary plays of Euripides. It explores single fragments of varying length that is important for satyric drama as a whole and other fragments that are interesting because their attribution to the genre is disputed. It also analyses the complete Cyclops examples of other satyric plots and of satyric themes, motifs, topics, and styles in general. The chapter reviews all the major fragments that have been recovered on papyrus, including those of Aeschylus and Sophocles that have transformed common knowledge of the satyric genre. It probes a certain fragment from Pratinas' thirty-two plays known to antiquity and scattered fragments from the seven or more of Achaeus, who is also famous for his satyr plays.Less
This chapter offers a Greek text and a modestly annotated translation of the more substantial fragmentary plays of Euripides. It explores single fragments of varying length that is important for satyric drama as a whole and other fragments that are interesting because their attribution to the genre is disputed. It also analyses the complete Cyclops examples of other satyric plots and of satyric themes, motifs, topics, and styles in general. The chapter reviews all the major fragments that have been recovered on papyrus, including those of Aeschylus and Sophocles that have transformed common knowledge of the satyric genre. It probes a certain fragment from Pratinas' thirty-two plays known to antiquity and scattered fragments from the seven or more of Achaeus, who is also famous for his satyr plays.
Mercedes Aguirre and Richard Buxton
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- June 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198713777
- eISBN:
- 9780191885365
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198713777.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, History of Art: pre-history, BCE to 500CE, ancient and classical, Byzantine
This book provides an innovative, authoritative, and richly illustrated study of the myths relating to the Cyclopes from classical antiquity until the present day. It is the first such book-length ...
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This book provides an innovative, authoritative, and richly illustrated study of the myths relating to the Cyclopes from classical antiquity until the present day. It is the first such book-length study of the topic in any language. The first part, dealing with classical antiquity, is organized thematically: after discussing various competing scholarly approaches to the myths, Aguirre and Buxton analyse ancient accounts and images of the Cyclopes in relation to landscape, physique (especially eyes, monstrosity, and hairiness), lifestyle, gods, names, love, and song. While the man-eating Cyclops Polyphemus, famous already in the Odyssey, plays a major part, so also do the Cyclopes who did monumental building work, as well as those who toiled as blacksmiths. The second part of the book concentrates on the post-classical reception of the myths. Topics discussed include medieval allegory, Renaissance grottoes, Italian and Spanish poetry, Spanish drama, and the novels of Hugo, Joyce, and Ellison; in the visual arts, dozens of images are examined, beginning with the medieval and early modern periods, moving on to Surrealism and Abstract Impressionism, and ending with contemporary painting and sculpture. Movie Cyclopes also appear, as does a wonderful circus performance. The overall aim of the authors is to explore, not just the perennial appeal of the Cyclopes as fearsome monsters, but the depth and subtlety of their mythology, which raises complex issues of thought and emotion. All too often, a Cyclops is assumed to be nothing more than a gruesome one-eyed monster. This book seeks to demonstrate that there is far more to it than that—quite apart from the fact that Cyclopes are by no means always one-eyed!Less
This book provides an innovative, authoritative, and richly illustrated study of the myths relating to the Cyclopes from classical antiquity until the present day. It is the first such book-length study of the topic in any language. The first part, dealing with classical antiquity, is organized thematically: after discussing various competing scholarly approaches to the myths, Aguirre and Buxton analyse ancient accounts and images of the Cyclopes in relation to landscape, physique (especially eyes, monstrosity, and hairiness), lifestyle, gods, names, love, and song. While the man-eating Cyclops Polyphemus, famous already in the Odyssey, plays a major part, so also do the Cyclopes who did monumental building work, as well as those who toiled as blacksmiths. The second part of the book concentrates on the post-classical reception of the myths. Topics discussed include medieval allegory, Renaissance grottoes, Italian and Spanish poetry, Spanish drama, and the novels of Hugo, Joyce, and Ellison; in the visual arts, dozens of images are examined, beginning with the medieval and early modern periods, moving on to Surrealism and Abstract Impressionism, and ending with contemporary painting and sculpture. Movie Cyclopes also appear, as does a wonderful circus performance. The overall aim of the authors is to explore, not just the perennial appeal of the Cyclopes as fearsome monsters, but the depth and subtlety of their mythology, which raises complex issues of thought and emotion. All too often, a Cyclops is assumed to be nothing more than a gruesome one-eyed monster. This book seeks to demonstrate that there is far more to it than that—quite apart from the fact that Cyclopes are by no means always one-eyed!
Michael Groden
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034980
- eISBN:
- 9780813038520
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034980.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
“Ulysses” in Progress treats James Joyce's novel as a monument. Not unusually for a manuscript study from 1977, this work was researched and written in ignorance of anything that might be called ...
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“Ulysses” in Progress treats James Joyce's novel as a monument. Not unusually for a manuscript study from 1977, this work was researched and written in ignorance of anything that might be called “theory,” and its facts were gathered and presented as part of an argument that took for granted the unity of the published Ulysses and the secondary position of the prepublication documents in relation to the finished book. In arguing that Joyce wrote Ulysses in three stages—early, middle, and last—”Ulysses” in Progress adopted a resolutely teleological model of Joyce's writing. The Ulysses avant-texte, and especially that of the “Cyclops” episode, offers a gold mine of material for these purposes.Less
“Ulysses” in Progress treats James Joyce's novel as a monument. Not unusually for a manuscript study from 1977, this work was researched and written in ignorance of anything that might be called “theory,” and its facts were gathered and presented as part of an argument that took for granted the unity of the published Ulysses and the secondary position of the prepublication documents in relation to the finished book. In arguing that Joyce wrote Ulysses in three stages—early, middle, and last—”Ulysses” in Progress adopted a resolutely teleological model of Joyce's writing. The Ulysses avant-texte, and especially that of the “Cyclops” episode, offers a gold mine of material for these purposes.
Michael Groden
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034980
- eISBN:
- 9780813038520
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034980.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Revisiting the manuscripts acquired a new urgency and excitement in 2002 when the National Library of Ireland announced its acquisition of previously unavailable documents, including an early draft ...
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Revisiting the manuscripts acquired a new urgency and excitement in 2002 when the National Library of Ireland announced its acquisition of previously unavailable documents, including an early draft of part of “Cyclops” as well as several new gatherings of notes. Before the National Library acquired its manuscripts, notes for Ulysses were extant mainly in the notesheets at the British Library and in two notebooks at Buffalo, as well as in a few other documents. To these gatherings can be added four more notebooks. The first of these is earlier than the other three. Joyce labeled its pages by topic—Simon, Leopold, Stephen, Jesus, Theosophy, Irish, Jews, Weininger, Words, and others—rather than by Ulysses episode, as was his practice in the other three and also the British Library notesheets and a Buffalo notebook from late in his work on Ulysses.Less
Revisiting the manuscripts acquired a new urgency and excitement in 2002 when the National Library of Ireland announced its acquisition of previously unavailable documents, including an early draft of part of “Cyclops” as well as several new gatherings of notes. Before the National Library acquired its manuscripts, notes for Ulysses were extant mainly in the notesheets at the British Library and in two notebooks at Buffalo, as well as in a few other documents. To these gatherings can be added four more notebooks. The first of these is earlier than the other three. Joyce labeled its pages by topic—Simon, Leopold, Stephen, Jesus, Theosophy, Irish, Jews, Weininger, Words, and others—rather than by Ulysses episode, as was his practice in the other three and also the British Library notesheets and a Buffalo notebook from late in his work on Ulysses.
Timothy Martin
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034027
- eISBN:
- 9780813038162
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034027.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Ulysses is among the most open-ended and naturalistic of novels, but it is striking how frequently James Joyce resorted to the theater — and to the melodramatic idiom in particular — to create ...
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Ulysses is among the most open-ended and naturalistic of novels, but it is striking how frequently James Joyce resorted to the theater — and to the melodramatic idiom in particular — to create moments of intensity and smaller climaxes that offer local and intermittent drama even if Ulysses as a whole does not. This chapter discusses the literary intertexts of Ulysses and explores how James Joyce adopts not just the structural elements but also the ethos and affective characteristics of nineteenth-century theatrical melodrama. Drawing on the work of Robert Heilman, it argues that melodrama tends to be monopathic, that is, to insist upon intense but unmixed emotion, and also to give precedence to politics and action within the world. Heilman's attachment of melodrama to politics, social action, and right and wrong gives us considerable purchase on the melodramatic qualities of “Cyclops.” The chapter provocatively speculates that Joyce may have gravitated toward melodrama in the later episodes of Ulysses, especially “Cyclops” and “Circe,” as a reaction against the now hampering constraints of the modernist aesthetic.Less
Ulysses is among the most open-ended and naturalistic of novels, but it is striking how frequently James Joyce resorted to the theater — and to the melodramatic idiom in particular — to create moments of intensity and smaller climaxes that offer local and intermittent drama even if Ulysses as a whole does not. This chapter discusses the literary intertexts of Ulysses and explores how James Joyce adopts not just the structural elements but also the ethos and affective characteristics of nineteenth-century theatrical melodrama. Drawing on the work of Robert Heilman, it argues that melodrama tends to be monopathic, that is, to insist upon intense but unmixed emotion, and also to give precedence to politics and action within the world. Heilman's attachment of melodrama to politics, social action, and right and wrong gives us considerable purchase on the melodramatic qualities of “Cyclops.” The chapter provocatively speculates that Joyce may have gravitated toward melodrama in the later episodes of Ulysses, especially “Cyclops” and “Circe,” as a reaction against the now hampering constraints of the modernist aesthetic.
Martin J. Steinbach and Esther G. González
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195172881
- eISBN:
- 9780199847570
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195172881.003.0019
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter presents a study on the effects of total monocular loss, compared with only partial loss brought about by cataract, strabismus, etc. It also emphasizes the psychophysical and oculomotor ...
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This chapter presents a study on the effects of total monocular loss, compared with only partial loss brought about by cataract, strabismus, etc. It also emphasizes the psychophysical and oculomotor characteristics of the patients and the consequences of one-eyed vision. Psychophysical measures of form, motion, and depth perception, and the optokinetic eye movements of the patients are also presented, together with information on the egocenter.Less
This chapter presents a study on the effects of total monocular loss, compared with only partial loss brought about by cataract, strabismus, etc. It also emphasizes the psychophysical and oculomotor characteristics of the patients and the consequences of one-eyed vision. Psychophysical measures of form, motion, and depth perception, and the optokinetic eye movements of the patients are also presented, together with information on the egocenter.
Justine McConnell
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199605002
- eISBN:
- 9780191751226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199605002.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Introducing the volume’s examination of anticolonial and postcolonial responses to the Homeric Odyssey, the chapter considers why the epic has been of such interest to artists of the African ...
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Introducing the volume’s examination of anticolonial and postcolonial responses to the Homeric Odyssey, the chapter considers why the epic has been of such interest to artists of the African diaspora. Toussaint L’Ouverture’s Haitian Revolution is seen as a precursor to these modern works, just as the Trojan War is the precursor to the Odyssey. The place of Martin Bernal’s influential Black Athena is assessed, and the reasons for the centrality of Cyclops to postcolonial responses to the Odyssey are examined. The oppression enacted by the imposition of the colonizer’s language is discussed, and the resistance against this is considered, not least by the contemporary writer Junot Díaz who himself engages with Césaire and Ellison, as well as with Homer.Less
Introducing the volume’s examination of anticolonial and postcolonial responses to the Homeric Odyssey, the chapter considers why the epic has been of such interest to artists of the African diaspora. Toussaint L’Ouverture’s Haitian Revolution is seen as a precursor to these modern works, just as the Trojan War is the precursor to the Odyssey. The place of Martin Bernal’s influential Black Athena is assessed, and the reasons for the centrality of Cyclops to postcolonial responses to the Odyssey are examined. The oppression enacted by the imposition of the colonizer’s language is discussed, and the resistance against this is considered, not least by the contemporary writer Junot Díaz who himself engages with Césaire and Ellison, as well as with Homer.
Justine McConnell
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199605002
- eISBN:
- 9780191751226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199605002.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (1939) is a landmark poem for anticolonialism, spearheaded by the Négritude movement of which he was a founder. It is also one of the first works to ...
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Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (1939) is a landmark poem for anticolonialism, spearheaded by the Négritude movement of which he was a founder. It is also one of the first works to bring explicit anticolonial issues of race and oppression to its response to the Odyssey. Trained in classics, Césaire both appropriates and subverts the Odyssey, not least in his response to the Homeric Cyclops and katabasis. He redefines the roles and moral perspective of the Cyclops incident, and throughout the poem demonstrates the internal struggle of those torn between assimilation and breaking free from the yoke of colonialism.Less
Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (1939) is a landmark poem for anticolonialism, spearheaded by the Négritude movement of which he was a founder. It is also one of the first works to bring explicit anticolonial issues of race and oppression to its response to the Odyssey. Trained in classics, Césaire both appropriates and subverts the Odyssey, not least in his response to the Homeric Cyclops and katabasis. He redefines the roles and moral perspective of the Cyclops incident, and throughout the poem demonstrates the internal struggle of those torn between assimilation and breaking free from the yoke of colonialism.
Justine McConnell
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199605002
- eISBN:
- 9780191751226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199605002.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Harris’s novel The Mask of the Beggar appropriates and reinterprets Homer’s Odyssey. This chapter engages with Harris’s underlying philosophy developed throughout his long literary career, paying ...
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Harris’s novel The Mask of the Beggar appropriates and reinterprets Homer’s Odyssey. This chapter engages with Harris’s underlying philosophy developed throughout his long literary career, paying particular attention to his emphasis on building cross-cultural bridges between peoples. The role performed by Wilson’s trope of the beggar’s mask within the novel is considered, relating it to Odysseus’s humble disguise on Ithaca. His complex use of a Cyclopean motif is explicated, and the way in which his work engages with and contests Bakhtin’s theories of polyphony and the novel, is considered. In addition, an early, little-known drama of Harris’s is seen to have had a direct influence on Derek Walcott when he came to write Omeros.Less
Harris’s novel The Mask of the Beggar appropriates and reinterprets Homer’s Odyssey. This chapter engages with Harris’s underlying philosophy developed throughout his long literary career, paying particular attention to his emphasis on building cross-cultural bridges between peoples. The role performed by Wilson’s trope of the beggar’s mask within the novel is considered, relating it to Odysseus’s humble disguise on Ithaca. His complex use of a Cyclopean motif is explicated, and the way in which his work engages with and contests Bakhtin’s theories of polyphony and the novel, is considered. In addition, an early, little-known drama of Harris’s is seen to have had a direct influence on Derek Walcott when he came to write Omeros.
Aarthi Vadde
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231180245
- eISBN:
- 9780231542562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231180245.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Chapter two reconfigures the opposition between modernism’s aesthetic individualism and postcolonialism’s political collectivism by analyzing what I call, borrowing from Walter Benjamin, Joyce’s ...
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Chapter two reconfigures the opposition between modernism’s aesthetic individualism and postcolonialism’s political collectivism by analyzing what I call, borrowing from Walter Benjamin, Joyce’s mediated solidarity with the Irish people. Mediated solidarity entails a critique but not an outright rejection of solidarity, both national and international, particularly when expressions of solidarity rely on rather than contest practices of self-deception. Joyce treated the self-deceptions of individual desire and collective national fantasies as chimeras with the potential to deflate the grandiose comparative claims of Irish revivalism. In a rejoinder to revivalism’s politically specious comparisons, Joyce developed his own techniques of international comparison in his fiction – techniques this chapter gathers under the heading “alternating asymmetry.” Its claim is that Joyce developed strategies of uneven and disproportionate comparison in order to explore the psychological and material effects of colonialism on ordinary Irish people and, further, to propose that the reassurances of collective solidarity do not always constitute an adequate solution to the challenges facing structurally underdeveloped communities. Eschewing narratives of progress and social acceptance for those of unlit pathways, failed unions, and betrayed friendships, Joyce brings attention to the residual inequalities and exclusions haunting nationalist and transnationalist projects of political unification from postcolonial Ireland to the continental fellowship of Europe.Less
Chapter two reconfigures the opposition between modernism’s aesthetic individualism and postcolonialism’s political collectivism by analyzing what I call, borrowing from Walter Benjamin, Joyce’s mediated solidarity with the Irish people. Mediated solidarity entails a critique but not an outright rejection of solidarity, both national and international, particularly when expressions of solidarity rely on rather than contest practices of self-deception. Joyce treated the self-deceptions of individual desire and collective national fantasies as chimeras with the potential to deflate the grandiose comparative claims of Irish revivalism. In a rejoinder to revivalism’s politically specious comparisons, Joyce developed his own techniques of international comparison in his fiction – techniques this chapter gathers under the heading “alternating asymmetry.” Its claim is that Joyce developed strategies of uneven and disproportionate comparison in order to explore the psychological and material effects of colonialism on ordinary Irish people and, further, to propose that the reassurances of collective solidarity do not always constitute an adequate solution to the challenges facing structurally underdeveloped communities. Eschewing narratives of progress and social acceptance for those of unlit pathways, failed unions, and betrayed friendships, Joyce brings attention to the residual inequalities and exclusions haunting nationalist and transnationalist projects of political unification from postcolonial Ireland to the continental fellowship of Europe.
Sebastian D.G. Knowles
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780813056920
- eISBN:
- 9780813053691
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813056920.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Chapter 4 takes as its point of departure one single line from the “Cyclops” section of Ulysses about an elephant called Jumbo. It follows Jumbo the elephant through a thicket of cultural history in ...
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Chapter 4 takes as its point of departure one single line from the “Cyclops” section of Ulysses about an elephant called Jumbo. It follows Jumbo the elephant through a thicket of cultural history in the 1880s to discover the elephant as a symbol of imperial ambition, of the carnivalesque and the tragic, of a Victorian age. The approach to Jumbo the Elephant reveals a way in to Joyce through exhumation, through the recovery of a world that has been lost, just as Ulysses is a recovery of a pre-war world.Less
Chapter 4 takes as its point of departure one single line from the “Cyclops” section of Ulysses about an elephant called Jumbo. It follows Jumbo the elephant through a thicket of cultural history in the 1880s to discover the elephant as a symbol of imperial ambition, of the carnivalesque and the tragic, of a Victorian age. The approach to Jumbo the Elephant reveals a way in to Joyce through exhumation, through the recovery of a world that has been lost, just as Ulysses is a recovery of a pre-war world.
Vicki Mahaffey and Wendy J. Truran
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- July 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190842260
- eISBN:
- 9780190842291
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190842260.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter challenges approaches to reading that rely on “scopic dominance” (here referred to as Cyclopean) and suggests that Ulysses, in particular, rewards readers who feel with, through, and ...
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This chapter challenges approaches to reading that rely on “scopic dominance” (here referred to as Cyclopean) and suggests that Ulysses, in particular, rewards readers who feel with, through, and about bodies—human and textual. The chapter proposes an approach to reading that produces an affective: one that moves us and that we move, one that we encounter with our living bodies. The sense modalities of sight and touch are used to illustrate Joyce’s broader approach to senses, perception, and epistemological questions more broadly. To read Ulysses “feelingly” is to engage the senses together with the emotions in the act of reading. Such readings cultivate a multi-perspectival proximity to the content, context, and language of the work. Affect theory provides a useful way of reconceiving the reading self: as porous, responsive, and part of an ever-unfolding process of being in relation with the world. This essay stages an encounter between text and reader that is designed to show readers how to feel their way through the text in a way that allows reading to become more reciprocal or mutual. The value of such an approach is that it makes it easier for a reader to be touched, and perhaps altered, in return.Less
This chapter challenges approaches to reading that rely on “scopic dominance” (here referred to as Cyclopean) and suggests that Ulysses, in particular, rewards readers who feel with, through, and about bodies—human and textual. The chapter proposes an approach to reading that produces an affective: one that moves us and that we move, one that we encounter with our living bodies. The sense modalities of sight and touch are used to illustrate Joyce’s broader approach to senses, perception, and epistemological questions more broadly. To read Ulysses “feelingly” is to engage the senses together with the emotions in the act of reading. Such readings cultivate a multi-perspectival proximity to the content, context, and language of the work. Affect theory provides a useful way of reconceiving the reading self: as porous, responsive, and part of an ever-unfolding process of being in relation with the world. This essay stages an encounter between text and reader that is designed to show readers how to feel their way through the text in a way that allows reading to become more reciprocal or mutual. The value of such an approach is that it makes it easier for a reader to be touched, and perhaps altered, in return.