Ep. 152 - Scylla and Charybdis

Scylla and CharybdisStephen DedalusPodcast
Written By Kelly Bryan

Here be monsters.

We crack into Ulysses' ninth episode: "Scylla and Charybdis." Topics in this episode include: a great philosopher's thoughts on Shakespeare, Dermot, another great philosopher's, thoughts on Shakespeare, Odysseus' encounter with Scylla and Charybdis, the geography and currents of the Strait of Messina that likely inspired the story of Scylla and Charybdis, the triumphant return of Stephen Dedalus, Aristotle and Plato, George Æ Russell the engulfer of souls, why the brain is man's cruelest weapon, intellectual dialectic contrasted with empty rhetoric, the National Library of Ireland and why it's great, "The Holy Office", well-timed lunch, Stephen Dedalus' three forms of literature, Henrik Ibsen and the primacy of drama in Stephen's literary schema, and how to navigate between two sea monsters.

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Further Reading:

  1. Budgen, F. (1972). James Joyce and the making of Ulysses, and other writings. London: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AMF2PZFZHI2WND8U

  2. Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. Oxford University Press.

  3. Ellmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/2015.65767.Ulysses-On-The-Liffey_djvu.txt

  4. Gilbert, S. (1955). James Joyce’s Ulysses: a study. New York: Vintage Books. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124373/page/n3/mode/2up

  5. Hamilton, C. A. (1998). Rhetoric and Homeric Paradigm in “Scylla and Charybdis.” James Joyce Quarterly, 35/36, 864–866. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25473963

  6. Homer, translated by Palmer., G.H. (1912). The Odyssey. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. 

  7. Kellogg, R. (1974). Scylla and Charybdis. In C. Hart & D. Hayman (eds.), James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical essays (147-179). Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/wu2y7mg

  8. Kenner, H. (1987). Ulysses. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 

  9. Sun, L. Scylla and Charybdis - Modernism Lab. Retrieved from https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab/scylla-and-charybdis

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