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Linati schema for Ulysses
This schema for the novel Ulysses was produced by Joyce in 1920 to help a friend (Carlo Linati) understand the fundamental structure of the book. The schema has been split into two subtables for better ease of reading.
| Title |
Technic |
Organ |
Symbols |
| Telemachus |
Dialogue for three and four,
narration,
soliloquy
|
- |
Hamlet, Ireland, Stephen |
| Nestor |
Dialogue for 2,
narration,
soliloquy
|
- |
Ulster, woman, practical sense |
| Proteus |
Soliloquy
|
- |
World, tide, Moon, evolution, metamorphosis |
| Calypso |
Dialogue for 2,
soliloquy
|
Kidneys |
Vagina, exile, nymph, Israel in captivity |
| Lotus Eaters |
Dialogue, prayer, soliloquy
|
Skin |
Host, penis in the bath, froth, flower, drugs, castration, oats |
| Hades |
Dialogue, narration
|
Heart |
Cemetry, sacred heart, the past, the unknown man, the unconscious, heart defect, relics, heartbreak |
| Aeolus |
Simbouleutike, dikanike, epideictic, tropes
|
Lungs |
Machines, wind, fame, kite, failed destinies, the press, mutability |
| Lestrygonians |
Peristaltic prose
|
Oesophagus |
Bloody sacrifice,
food,
shame
|
| Scylla and Charybdis |
Whirlpools
|
Brain |
Hamlet,
Shakespeare,
Christ,
Socrates,
London,
Stratford,
scholasticism,
mysticism,
Plato,
Aristotle,
youth,
maturity
|
| Wandering Rocks |
Shifting labyrinth between two shores
|
Blood |
Caesar,
Christ,
errors,
homonyms,
synchronisms,
resemblances
|
| Sirens |
Fuga per canonem
|
Ear |
Promises,
female,
sounds,
embellishments
|
| Cyclops |
Alternating asymmetry |
Muscles, bones |
Nation,
state,
religion,
dynasty,
idealism,
exaggeration,
fanaticism,
collectivity
|
| Nausicaa |
Retrogressive progression |
Eye, nose |
Onanism,
feminine,
hypocrisy
|
| Oxen of the Sun |
Prose, embryo, foetus, birth
|
Matrix, uterus |
Fertilisation,
frauds,
parthenogenesis
|
| Circe |
Exploding vision
|
Locomotor apparatus, skeleton |
Zoology,
personification,
pantheism,
magic,
poison,
antidote,
reel
|
| Eumaeus |
Relaxed prose |
Nerves |
- |
| Ithaca |
Dialogue, pacified style, fusion
|
Juices |
- |
| Penelope |
Monologue, resigned style
|
Fat |
- |
Referenced By
James Joyce/Ulysses | Ulysses (novel) | Ulysses (novel)/Penelope
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