Sons and fathers
Ulysses is a novel that is closely related to Homer's Ulysses. In this video, Matt Campbell explains more.
At first, there seems to be little similarity between Ulysses and Homer’s Odyssey.
What could a novel about a day in the life of two men in twentieth-century Dublin have in common with the epic tale of Odysseus’s long journey home from the Trojan War?
In this video, Professor Matthew Campbell explains how Joyce was influenced by Homer’s epic poem, and how an understanding of the Odyssey can help us to decode Ulysses.
This article is from the online course:
Reading James Joyce: Life, Place, Fiction
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