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The Hindu
8 hours ago
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- The Hindu
On the novel Ulysses
Daily Quiz | On the novel Ulysses Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit YOUR SCORE 0 /7 RETAKE THE QUIZ 1 / 7 | Apart from the book being set on June 16, how is the date important in Joyce's life? DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO Answer : It is the date of first sexual encounter with Nora Barnacle, his wife-to-be SHOW ANSWER 2 / 7 | Made of 18 Episodes, the book is divided into three parts. If the first Part II is Odyssey, what are Part I and III? DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO Answer : Telemachia and Nostos SHOW ANSWER 3 / 7 | What was the working title of Ulysses and it originally began as a novel focused on which character already created by Joyce? DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO Answer : 'Stephen Hero' and Stephen Dedalus SHOW ANSWER 4 / 7 | Name Episode 15 which Joyce scholars say is roughly the length of the first eight episodes of the novel combined. DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO Answer : 'Circe' SHOW ANSWER 5 / 7 | What does Bloom eat for breakfast that has become very famous now? DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO Answer : Grilled mutton kidneys SHOW ANSWER 6 / 7 | Serving as a motif, which song features in both Bloom's and Molly's memories? DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO Answer : 'Love's Old Sweet Song' SHOW ANSWER
Irish Independent
19 hours ago
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- Irish Independent
Bloomsday: Never-before-seen music for key love song in James Joyce's ‘Ulysses' recovered from Titanic wreckage
Today at 21:30 Today is Bloomsday – and an exclusive picture released to the Irish Independent echoes the main theme of James Joyce's Ulysses, acclaimed as the greatest novel of the 20th century. The music and lyrics of Love's Old Sweet Song resonate through Ulysses protagonist Leopold Bloom's life on June 16, 1904, as he realises his singer wife Molly Bloom is about to be unfaithful to him.
