Michael Groden - Notes on James Joyce's Ulysses


EPISODES OF ULYSSES: 1. Telemachus - 2. Nestor - 3. Proteus - 4. Calypso - 5. Lotus Eaters - 6. Hades - 7. Aeolus - 8. Lestrygonians - 9. Scylla and Charybdis - 10. Wandering Rocks - 11. Sirens - 12. Cyclops - 13. Nausicaa - 14. Oxen of the Sun - 15. Circe - 16. Eumaeus - 17. Ithaca - 18. Penelope
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Hades: Joyce's Schema

from Joyce's schema prepared in Fall 1921:

Art: religion
Organ: heart
Colour: white, black
Symbol: caretaker
Technic: incubism
Correspondences:

4 Rivers: Dodder, Grand, Royal Canals + Liffey
Sisyphus: Cunningham
Cerberus: Father Coffey
Hades: Caretaker
Hercules: Daniel O'Connell
Elpenor: Dignam
Agamemnon: Parnell
Ajax: Menton

+ from Joyce's earlier schema prepared in Sept. 1920:

Sense (Meaning) = The Descent into Nothingness