Chris Hedges on James Joyce's Ulysses

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  @zehrajafri9252 · 4 years ago

  Great discussion. Chris Hedges deserve's utmost respect for his knowledge and compassion for all humanity. 💟

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  @reighty7472 · 11 months ago

  Really enjoyed your interview with Chris Hedges—-Such a treat!

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  @peterstanziale3211 · 4 years ago

  Alexander Scourby's reading from the "Talking Books" for the blind in the Library of Congress I think was done in 1967. You are right it should be read aloud,,, to sense that irish "thing", that verbal charm they posess for storytelling

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  @dreamwaves2rg · 4 years ago

  My Mom read to me several of the passages in Finnegans Wake during my formative years and at that point in my existence, the lines seemed quite ridiculous. I imagined that Joyce was pulling an elaborate prank on the Literary Establishment by publishing this “stream of consciousness” so listening to the interview was quite enlightening. I hope Chris analyzes  this seminal work in even greater detail during future videos because I am still perplexed by its “meaning” - fascinating conversation…..

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  @edwardb7811 · 4 years ago

  This is a helpful introduction to a great work of literature. Before visiting Dublin, I read the book, one chapter at a time, and viewed one video track at a time. I used The Teaching Company's "Joyce's 'Ulysses'" by Professor James A.W. Heffernan.  In this way, over a period of days, I got through the book.  In my opinion, the work is incomprehensible to most of us mortals unless we have some help to understand the allusions.  If we do have such help, the work very much rewards its reading and is good preparation for a trip to Dublin.

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  @geoffreynhill2833 · 4 years ago

  Thanks, Mitch. Good bloke! 🌈🦉

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  @glenngouldification · 4 years ago

  Great Joycean insights from Chris ! Thanks for this post

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  @37Dionysos · 3 years ago

  Lifelong writer with decades of joy and study of Joyce. Best "Ulysses" companion is Joyce-biographer Richard Ellmann's "Ulysses on the Liffey," a relatively small/short but extraordinarily clear presentation of the Joyce-original "Schema" for his book that makes each chapter of "U" very accessible and fun. It illuminates Joyce's incredibly rigorous "propositions" about (qt. Ellmann) "desirable and undesirable life," about kindness vs. cruelty, substance vs. schmaltz, the relations of nature and art etc. Once you know Joyce's core ethical concerns, all the allusions and fireworks are things to enjoy rather than worry in each reading. "Kish is for anticheirst, and the free of my hand to him!" ("his wrong shoulder higher than his right")...

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  @citygasbatteryriot964 · 4 years ago

  Scatology. In Ireland, one of the joke debates was, does the queen actually shit, on her bog seat, made of stolen gold?

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  @rosaliagrun9039 · 4 years ago

  Agradezco traducciones

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  @urielandros2862 · 4 years ago

  Thanks for a great discussion.

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  @jerriharvey4641 · 4 years ago

  Thank you 🙏

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