Why does the world not know about Prof. Sugrue ? This man should get way more recognition. Thank you, Professor.

@rickgruffman7132

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Well, plenty of people actually do know of him. It's not as if hes existing in some bubble. Hes an academic, a well-place and highly respected one, and in academia hes a rock star. Look, not many are turned on by such discussions like his. So, naturally, hes not going to have an audience that compares to, say, joe Rogan, but he does have a respectably sizable audience.

@username1235400

Жыл бұрын

@@rickgruffman7132 The man deserves more.

@MrBernardthecow

Жыл бұрын

Sadly, people don't get what they deserve.

I had one favorite professor each as an undergrad and a graduate student - the first was Howard Appel , a definitive annotator of Nabokov, while I was at Northwestern, then the great Harold Bloom at NYU. I have not come across an academic like them until tripping upon this great man here on YT. Dr. Sugrue's previous lectures and current seminars are beyond (re-)invigorating and inspiring!!! This dissection of Joyce is astonishing, so succinct, yet encompassing. CHEERS, SIR!!!

Cool lecture. A note on the significance of June 16th 1904: that was the day that Joyce and his eventual wife Nora Barnacle went on their first date together, giving it a personal/sentimental significance. It is also close enough to the time that Joyce decided to move to Europe, giving it a certain practical significance, as Joyce wouldn’t have written about Dublin during the years that he did not reside there

I'm out of superlatives in commenting about how many ways Dr Sugrue weaves his tapestries. This man simply sinks me with his brilliance. On the one hand his intellect surpasses my understanding, yet he makes perfect sense to me. And that Dr Sugrue is the highest compliment I can give you. Awe inspiring. God Bless you, sir. And you remain in my prayers.

*Introduction* 3:34 _Ulysses_ An Ironic Journey, An Ironic Hero, Leopold Bloom 4:18 “A Dublin Everyman.” 5:19 An Entire Day on June 16th, 1904 32:26 The Turmoil Of 1904 5:49 Molly Bloom, Unfaithful Lover 8:14 Astonishingly Well-Crafted “Beyond Fastidious” *Comparing Odyssey & Ulysseys* 9:30 Chronology 1. Leave Home -> Journey -> Return Home Magnitude 11:19 Macro Odysseus to Micro Ulysseys *The Development of English* 12:01 Each Monster corresponds to a different piece of the Human Body 15:50 More Meaning the more you go 16:34 Oxen of the Sun 🐂 ☀️ 18:17 “He can find the sound and the music and the meter inside words.” 19:17 1934 Obscenity Trial 20:52 Characters *Q&A* 22:55 Took it apart, put it back together 24:16 Pushing the limits of the Novel structure 26:16 Atoms and Molecule Connections _Background on James Joyce_ 27:48 James Joyce 28:42 Irish Catholic Jesuit, Loses Belief. 30:16 Do I need to read the other novels first? No. But it wouldn’t hurt to read other short stories of his. 33:14 What’s the most random number? What’s the most random day? 34:18 Revealing and Brilliant 35:42 Sounds like water running downhill 37:00 Unrealized Bloom? Life Goes On. 39:07 Memorable for Being Ordinary The Epic which refuses to End 41:26 Ulysseys and Hamlet 42:23 Homeric Heroic Values 45:47 Straddling 48:12 Irish Love Literature ☘️ 49:49 The Detail about Dublin, so typically Irish. Pubs are the nexus of Irish social life. Pharmacy. National Library of Ireland. 🇮🇪 53:15 Includes so much in the book. Layered Writer 54:34 Styles and Genres throughout • Connection • Articulation • Blending Descartes - Introspection Bloom - Instability 56:54 1630 to 1910, Fragmentation, Breaking, Flawed, Stream Of Consciousness 59:34 Cohesion 1:01:32 Thank You, Happy Holidays.

@matthewroy1043

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Thank you so much for this simple, yet helpful, addition.

@pikiwiki

Жыл бұрын

This is massively helpful. Thank you

@Dino_Medici

6 ай бұрын

I love you

The best things in life are free

Ulysses has always intimidated me until listening to your lecture Thanks Dr. Sugrue

Professor Sugrue, this lecture was exhilarating to listen to. Incidentally, I love your lectures. This one on James Joyce's novel, "Ulysses," was ice cream with so many flavors, as in Joyce's writings. I LOVE JAMES JOYCE, as you may assume by now. (Homer, also) 📚 Joyce is one of those writers that I tackle over and over again. As you just discussed in this lecture, this is a huge undertaking. I love challenges. My pappa got me read really young great books. (He made an iconoclast out of me. )Also, this has helped more with Joyce's novel, and I appreciate that, sir. I hope you are doing better, as I saw in one of your lectures you had ill. Respectfully. . ❤

What a treat! Pleasure to watch this after working a long weekend.

Woah, didn’t realize we were getting these. Can’t wait to dig in, thank you!

This book made me who I am today... love your work! Regards from UK.

@harpar1028

Жыл бұрын

just WHO are U

@jojodogface898

Жыл бұрын

@@harpar1028 He's James Joyce

Just so outstanding!!!

Rest in peace the king 😢

Props to the moderator!! and of course to PRof. Sugrue

Thank you so much for doing these!!

He will be missed.

that drink looks very mysterious

I would appreciate to see your analysis of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a masterpiece that leaves me in wonder of its astonishing beauty. Thank you for this lecture sir.

Moby Dick followed by Ulysses? This is fantastic! Two of my favorite books!

Thank you very much

Great Stuff 💯

Nice!

Nice one

Man I wish I had this lecture before reading Ulysses. Star Wars is creatively bankrupt.

His lectures on Joyce are a bless, and helped a LOT me writing my dissertation on Eddison, an author that was writing around the same period (and yeah, small world, a big fan of Eddison, James Stephens, was a close friend of Joyce. You might not know someone, but you sure will know someone who knows them lol)

@pikiwiki

Жыл бұрын

E R Eddison?

@euclidesribeiro8810

Жыл бұрын

@@pikiwiki That is the one

@pikiwiki

Жыл бұрын

@@euclidesribeiro8810 Dense work.

@euclidesribeiro8810

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@@pikiwiki It is, it definitely pays off though.

@pikiwiki

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@@euclidesribeiro8810 Ok. It's been a while for me. Maybe I will try again

I would love to see a lecture on Borges from you, Professor.

How to make a request? I would love to see one of these on Milton's Paradise Lost....Thank you so much for these.

The date is the first date of James Joyce’s wife: Nora Barnacle

A couple of toss-offs for the good Professor: would he consider doing a talk on Virginia Woolf? But also, akin to that question, what are his thoughts on filming authors like Joyce or Woolf? The few adaptations I've seen - of "The Dead" and "Mrs. Dalloway" - I have liked, while also admitting they were failures. Are there one or two novels esteemed by Dr. Sugrue, where he has also found satisfaction with a cinematic version?

Prof.Sugrue is a polymath.

June 16, 1904 is the day that James Joyce went on his first date with Nora Barnacle.

Can anyone explain what is meant by freemasonry at around 28:00?

@phillipstroll7385

Жыл бұрын

You are in KZread. Look it up.

@honeyinglune8957

Жыл бұрын

@@phillipstroll7385 I did Google the definition but didn't see how it would fit into this context

@phillipstroll7385

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@@honeyinglune8957 because there is a belief that masons control the world. Some believe masons design cities. Therefore, if he was a mason he wouldn't need to go to Dublin to know what Dublin was like.

"Ulysses"? To parody Hobbes, "This novel in the panoply of world literature is gimmicky, self-aggrandizing, misogynistic, silly, and long." How it got to the number one spot in the Modern Library 100 is a mindblowing mystery.

I am convinced we are IN the end days. As far as I can see, famine is on the horizon, all the other 'signs' are fulfilled. What do you know about the 2 messengers at the end? Anything?!

I like the idea that Joyce is moving from the unreliable narrator to the unreliable collective consciousness ... its like the tide pulling back leaving behind mounds of Celtic, Catholic, Enlightened, Romantic, and Nationalistic epistemologies and this generation of Dubliners trying to reclaiming them, trying to mash them up together, falling in gaps, the privations, trapped in the form of their own subjectivity, tossed in epic movement towards the "most true"

I happen to be reading Ulysses right now. I am almost halfway through it. The aspect of the novel that intrigues me the most is the manner in which Joyce explodes the use of language through the stream of consciousness technique which he was so seminal in the invention of. Nonetheless, the novel doesn't satisfy me. The plot surrounding poor Bloom is not that interesting in my opinion. In short, this novel is highly overrated. Nonetheless, I will continue reading this mock epic until it is finished.