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Ulysses

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Ulysses, a novel by J. Joyce, serialized in the Little Review from 1918. The editors of the Little Review were prosecuted and found guilty of publishing obscenity, which led to the novel's publication in a non-English speaking country: it was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach in 1922. Copies of the first English edition were burned by the New York post office authorities, and the Folkestone customs authorities seized the second edition in 1923. Various later editions appeared abroad, and, after the United States District Court found the book not obscene in 1933, the first English edition appeared in 1936, and the first unlimited edition in America and England in 1937.

The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16 June 1904 (the anniversary of Joyce's first walk with Nora Barnacle, who became his wife), now known as ‘Bloomsday’. The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus (the hero of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man); Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertisement canvasser; and his wife, Molly. The plot follows the wanderings of Stephen and Bloom through Dublin, and their eventual meeting. The last chapter is a monologue by Molly Bloom. The various chapters roughly correspond to the episodes of Homer's Odyssey: Stephen representing Telemachus, Bloom Odysseus, and Molly Penelope. In the course of the story a public bath, a funeral, a newspaper office, a library, public houses, a maternity hospital, and a brothel are visited. The style is highly allusive and employs a variety of techniques, especially those of the stream of consciousness and of parody, and ranges from extreme realism to fantasy.

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Ulysses

Myths and Legends of the World | 2001 | Copyright

Ulysses

The Greek hero Odysseus* was known to the Romans as Ulixes, which became Ulysses in English. This name has been used in English translations of Homer's* Iliad and Odyssey since the l600s and in other literature based on the life of Odysseus.

In Dante's The Divine Comedy, written in the late 1200s, a character named Ulysses told of a voyage beyond the Pillars of Hercules—two peaks at the western entrance to the Mediterranean. His goal was to explore the unknown world, and he and his crew sailed westward for five months. Just as they sighted land, a fierce storm destroyed their ship and killed them.

In the literature of the Middle Ages, Ulysses was often portrayed as a liar and a rogue. In his poem "The Rape of Lucrèce," Shakespeare referred to "sly Ulysses." In the mid-1800s, Alfred, Lord Tennyson portrayed the hero's final years in his poem Ulysses.

James Joyce's novel Ulysses, written in 1922, is based on the Odyssey. Each chapter in the novel takes a different episode from Homer's work to document a single hour of a day in Dublin.

See also Odysseus; Odysseym, The.

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Ulysses

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Ulysses ♂ Latin form of the Greek name Odysseus, borne by the famous wanderer of Homer's Odyssey. The name is of uncertain derivation (it was associated by the Greeks themselves with the verb odyssesthai ‘to hate’). Moreover, it is not clear why the Latin form should be so altered; mediation through Etruscan has been one suggestion. As an English given name it has occasionally been used in England from the 16th century and more commonly in America in the 19th and 20th centuries (like other names of classical origin such as Homer and Virgil). It was the name of the 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant (1822–85). It has also been used in Ireland as a classicizing form of Ulick.

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Ulysses

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

Ulysses A joint ESA–NASA spacecraft launched in 1990October to study the solar wind, in particular from the unexplored regions around the Sun's poles. The spacecraft passed Jupiter in 1992February, which swung it on to a trajectory that took it over the Sun's poles. Ulysses passed through the solar wind dominated by the south polar coronal hole, measuring wind speeds in the region of 700 km/s, in 1994June–November, and the corresponding region over the Sun's north pole in 1995June–September. Ulysses then embarked on a second orbit of the Sun, overflying the south pole for a second time from 2000September to 2001January and the north pole in 2001September–December. http://ulysses.esa.int/

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‘Ulysses’

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

‘Ulysses’, a poem by Tennyson, composed 1833, published 1842. In a dramatic monologue Ulysses describes how he plans to set forth again from Ithaca after his safe return from his wanderings after the Trojan war, ‘to sail beyond the sunset’. The episode is based on Dante (Inferno, xxvi). It expresses the poet's sense of ‘the need of going forward and braving the struggle of life’ after the death of A. H. Hallam.

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Ulysses

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Ulysses the Roman name for Odysseus; he is referred to as the type of a traveller or adventurer, and also of a crafty and clever schemer.
Ulysses' bow able to be bent by Ulysses alone; on his return to Ithaca, he finds that his wife Penelope has agreed that she will marry whichever of her suitors can bend and string the bow, and only Ulysses can achieve this.

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Ulysses

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Ulysses, USA Three states (Kansas, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania) have places with this name, all after General Ulysses S. Grant (1822–85), President of the USA (1869–77) and commander of the Union forces (1864–5) during the Civil War (1861–5).

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Ulysses

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

Ulysses A NASA and ESA probe, launched in 1990, carrying the International Solar Polar Mission to fly over the poles of the Sun, which cannot be seen from Earth, and to study the solar wind. It travelled first to Jupiter for a gravity assist.

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Ulysses

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Ulysses, in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, a Greek commander.

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Ulysses

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Ulysses see Odysseus .

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Ulysses See Odysseus

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