Ep. 156 - Horseness is the Whatness of Allhorse

Are you Team Aristotle or Team Plato?

Topics in this episode include Charybdis, schoolboys and schoolmen, whether or not Plato was shallow, artists being rejected by Plato’s Republic, platonism v. neoplatonism, Aristotle’s view of art, Stephen’s dagger definitions, the Plato and Antisthenes’ thoughts on horses, horse v. horseness, Plato’s Forms, the ineluctable modality of the visible, Joyce’s thoughts on William Blake, and how to solve an impossible binary.

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Further Reading:

1. Beck, H. Æ IOU: two debts to Russell? James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/russell-debt 

2. CHENG, V. J. (1991). White Horse, Dark Horse: Joyce’s Allhorse of Another Color. Joyce Studies Annual, 2, 101–128. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26283640 

3. Dilworth, T., & Marrero, K. (1990). A.E.I.O.U.: Plato and Rimbaud in “Scylla and Charybdis.” James Joyce Quarterly, 28(1), 298–301. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25485137 

4. Erzgräber, W. (1987). Art and Reality: An Interpretation of “Scylla and Charybdis.” James Joyce Quarterly, 24(3), 291–304. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476812 

5. Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vy6j4tk 

6. 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 

7. Hunt, J. (2022). This side idolatry. The Joyce Project. Retrieved from https://www.joyceproject.com/notes/090007idolatry.htm 

8. Ito, E. (2003). Mediterranean Joyce Meditates on Buddha. Language and Culture, No.5 (Center for Language and Culture Education and Research, Iwate Prefectural University), 53-64. Retrieved from http://p-www.iwate-pu.ac.jp/~acro-ito/Joycean_Essays/MJMonBuddha.html

9. Jenkins, R. (1969). THEOSOPHY IN “SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS.” Modern Fiction Studies, 15(1), 35–48. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26279201 

10. 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

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

12. Let's Talk Religion. “What Is Neoplatonism?” YouTube, 30 Dec. 2022, www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZEUo_sHoBw.

13. Michels, J. (1983). “Scylla and Charybdis”: Revenge in James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 20(2), 175–192. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476502 

14. O’Rourke, F. (2016). Aristotelian Interpretations. Newbridge: Irish Academic Press. 

15. O’Rourke, F. (2018). Knowledge and Identity in Joyce. In: Belluc, S., Bénéjam, V. (eds) Cognitive Joyce. Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. 

16. O’Rourke, F. (2022). Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 

17. RASMUSSEN, I. D. (2019). Riffing on Shakespeare: James Joyce, Stephen Dedalus, and the Avant-Garde Theory of Literary Creation. Joyce Studies Annual, 33–73. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26862950 

18. Sharpe, G. (1963). THE PHILOSOPHY OF JAMES JOYCE. Modern Fiction Studies, 9(2), 120–126. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26278465 

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

20. White, L. W. (Dec 2013). Dunlop, Daniel Nicol. The Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved from https://www.dib.ie/biography/dunlop-daniel-nicol-a9602 

21. Wiedenfeld, L. (2013). The Other Ancient Quarrel: “Ulysses” and Classical Rhetoric. James Joyce Quarterly, 51(1), 63–79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24598847