Between 'Scylla and Charybdis' Navigating through Ulysses

Hunter Felt

Date of Award

2003

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Wallace, Miriam

Keywords

Joyce, James, Ulysses, Odyssey

Area of Concentration

British and American Literature

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the ninth chapter of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, 'Scylla and Charybdis.' Through a careful reading of the chapter itself, which consists of the character Stephen Dedalus discussing the relationship between William Shakespeare's life and his work, and the application of Joyce's schemas for the novel, which state that the primary conflict in the chapter is between Platonic and Aristotelian thought, this thesis finds a method of reading that applies to the novel as a whole. In this reading, Stephen Dedalus's more Aristotelian approach to literature in 'Scylla and Charybdis' subtlety hints at the way Ulysses should be approached, first and foremost as a narrative and only afterwards as an allegory or an intricate symbolic work.

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