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Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

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Chapter 16 -- <strong>Underground</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> in English Fiction<br />

Here's how Joyce's' Ulysses stacks up against the Odyssey.<br />

Odyssey (c. 855 BC)<br />

Author Homer James Joyce<br />

Protagonist Odysseus Leopold Bloom<br />

Setting<br />

Opening<br />

Characters<br />

<strong>Rivers</strong><br />

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)<br />

Mythical Mediterranean,<br />

Mythical times<br />

From Women in Love (1920),<br />

Tell me, O muse, <strong>of</strong> that<br />

ingenious hero who travelled<br />

far and wide after he had<br />

sacked the famous town <strong>of</strong><br />

Troy.<br />

Dublin, 1904<br />

Lotus Eaters Pharmacist<br />

Cyclops Citizen in pub<br />

Sirens Barmaids<br />

Acheron Grand Canal<br />

Cocytus Royal Canal<br />

Styx<br />

Lethe<br />

Dodder<br />

Pyriphlegethon Liffey<br />

DRAFT 1122//66//22001122<br />

Ulysses (1922)<br />

Stately, plump buck Mulligan<br />

came from the stairhead,<br />

bearing a bowl <strong>of</strong> lather on<br />

which a mirror and a razor lay<br />

crossed.<br />

Strange, and desolate above all things, like disembarking from the Styx into the desolated<br />

underworld, was this landing at night. There was the raw, half-lighted, covered-in vastness <strong>of</strong><br />

the dark place, boarded and hollow underfoot, with only desolation everywhere.<br />

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