Puzzles

Puzzles Episode 1Telemachus Buck Mulligan looks for a face cloth to clean his razor and not finding one in his pocket exclaims: Scutter!(See Gabler's corrected text Ulysses - Line 66, page 4) The explanations I've seen denote . The word is actually an expletive, and is a more polite expression for excrement.I'm melting, he said, as the candle remarked when ... (L333, page 10) seems to be an unfinished joke. It seems the joke remains unknown. Some references relate the comment to Icarus an...

No writer can touch sir Walter Scott - Joyce and the Wizard of the North

https://blog.oup.com/2023/06/there-is-no-writer-can-touch-sir-walter-scott-joyce-and-the-wizard-of-the-north/"There is no writer can touch sir Walter Scott": Joyce and the Wizard of the NorthWhile Walter Scott was one of the greatest novelists of nineteenth-century literature, at least in terms of sales, James Joyce was probably the major novelist of the twentieth century in terms of impact and influence. According to Joyce’s brother Stanislaus, the Irish writer "couldn’t stand" the Scot’s wo...

Narrative Medicine - and other clips from The New Yorker 22 Aug 2022 print edition

Harry You Must Stop Living in the Past - Names as Acts of Recall in John Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom

Intertextuality - Examples and Definition of Intertextuality

Search for:Literary DevicesDefinition and Examples of Literary TermsMain menuSkip to contentFull List of Literary DevicesGrammatical TermsPoem AnalysisBook Literary AnalysisPhrase AnalysisEssay WritingWhat are Literary DevicesCitationIntertextualityDefinition of IntertextualityIntertextuality is a sophisticated literary device making use of a textual reference within some body of text, which reflects again the text used as a reference. Instead of employing referential phrases from different l...

Tide and Time - in Search of Lost Boats - and on James Joyce

Outline of the Odyssey in Ulises

Twelve Keys to Ulysses