TELEMACHUS - An analysis of the first chapter of James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature grade: 10 University of Paderborn language: English abstract: At first sight Ulysses might appear intimidating. The reader's reaction might vary from confusion to excitement to enthusiasm or even resignation. F. Scott Fitzgerald said the novel made him feel a hollow cheerful pain and remarked: The book makes me feel appallingly naked. To Stephan Zweig Ulysses is not just a novel to him it is a witches Sabbath of the spirit a gigantic 'Capriccio' a phenomenal cerebral Walpurgisnacht. [...] Something evil is its root. Ulysses is not a novel it's an epic. Inspired by Homer's adventures of the voyager hero Odysseus Joyce expanded a short story to almost a thousand pages and created a one-of-a-kind portrait of Dublin at the start of the twentieth century. Hence Ulysses does not actually mirror the ancient epic neither does it recall Irish history as presented in a history book solely in terms of social and political events and changes....