A Word In Your Ear
by Eric Rosenbloom
copyright 2003
Table of Contents
Part I • Introduction
Reading Techniques
Example of Technique
Example of Exegesis
Characters (Sigla)
Relationships
Patterns
Issy
Identity
Other Characters
Magic Numbers
Saints Giordano and Giambattista
Viconian Cycle
Death and Rebirth
Humanism
The Book of the Dead
Structure
Geography
Dublin
The Rest of Ireland
History
Prehistoric
Christian
Norse
English
Misery
Struggle
Liberation
James Joyce
Last Word Before Reading On
Part II • Reading
King Roderick O’Conor — pp. 380–382
The Kiss — pp. 383–386
St. Kevin and the Bath — pp. 604–606
Archdruid Berkeley and St. Patrick — pp. 611–612
Note on Reading
2 Fables
The Mookse and the Gripes (pp. 152–159)
The Ondt and the Gracehoper (pp. 414–419)
The Fables of La Fontaine
ALP
HCE
13 Passages
Overture (pp. 3–4)
Finnegan’s Wake (pp. 4–6)
The Book (pp. 18–20)
Slander (pp. 33–34)
The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly (pp. 44–47)
Letter (pp. 104–108)
Shem (pp. 169–172)
Shem the Penman (pp. 182–186)
The Song of the Four (pp. 398–399)
Vision of Shaun (pp. 403–405)
Farewell to Haun (pp. 471–473)
The Letter (pp. 615–619)
Anna Liffey (pp. 619–628)
Appendices
The Mystery of the Narrator
Cycles of Genesis
Ma la fantasia altro non è che risalto di reminiscenze, e l'ingegno altro non è che lavoro d’intorno a cose che si ricordano.
— Giambattista Vico
(But imagination is nothing other than the springing up again of reminiscences, and genius is nothing but working on what is remembered.)
No, it’s a wheel, I tell the world. And it’s all square.
With kindest regards sincerely yours— James Joyce
Hyl. But the novelty, Philonous, the novelty! There lies the danger. New notions should always be discountenanced; they unsettle men’s minds, and nobody knows where they will end.— George Berkeley
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