Week 7: Joyce's 'The Dead' => Ulysses: "Hades"

The aesthetics of the Joycean epiphany.

"Imaginative Destiny" - feel the mythic

So in Joyce - you get some sense of the everyday, but feel the Homeric parallels as a powerful force. You can appreciate it in more than just the dramatic sense.

Naturalism // Modernism // Symbolism

Luminosity - something transcendent (but still of the ordinary) - not allegory but it clearly points at something else...

"The Dead" - orchestration of consciousness (cf Woolf's Dalloway)
"The Boardinghouse" - cf Puccini's 'La Boheme' - candle and cold hands
-> imaginative participation in both.

The sense of a pattern (but one which is implicit, not contrived)

Flaubert's "mot juste" - the right word
- faithful to its surrounds, also initiates feeling, transcends without being obtrusive

'Portrait' -> imagination as a burning coal - cf "The Windhover"
(image from Shelley)

Joyce "The Classical Temper" - also the title of a great book about Ulysses

Reject Romanticism, reach a classical stasis

//Less didactic: reach an awareness of aesthetic wonder.

[heightened sense of appreciation of wonder]