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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class. It's a production of I

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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class, a podcast that truly believes

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Speaker 1: no day is boring. Today's February second. The day was

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Speaker 1: February second. N Ulysses, a novel by Irish writer James Joyce,

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Speaker 1: was first published in its entirety. The book is regarded

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Speaker 1: as one of the most important works in modernist literature,

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Speaker 1: and it has a reputation for being long and difficult

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Speaker 1: to read. People in Ireland and Britain in other places

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Speaker 1: often pronounce it Ulysses, but I'm going to pronounce it

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Speaker 1: Ulysses throughout the rest of the episode because I have

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Speaker 1: an unrefined American accent. Throughout the early twentieth century, Joyce

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Speaker 1: wrote and published prose, poetry, and a play. Some of

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Speaker 1: his most notable pre Ulysses work includes Dubliners, a short

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Speaker 1: story collection about middle class life around Dublin, and a

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Speaker 1: portrait of the artist as a young man, Joyce's first novel.

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Speaker 1: By the time this novel was published, Joyce had already

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Speaker 1: began working on Ulysses. Poet Ezra Pound sent Margaret Anderson

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Speaker 1: and Jane Heap editors at the Greenwich Village based literary

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Speaker 1: magazine The Little Review parts of Ulysses. They agreed to

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Speaker 1: print the work serially and started doing so in nineteen eighteen,

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Speaker 1: but in nineteen twenty the editors were arrested for publishing obscenity,

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Speaker 1: largely due to Ulysses, but also because of the magazine's

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Speaker 1: tone in general. The two were convicted in nineteen one,

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Speaker 1: and they agreed to stop publishing Ulysses, but just a

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Speaker 1: couple of months after their conviction, Sylvia Beach, an American

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Speaker 1: who had an English language bookstore in Paris called Shakespeare

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Speaker 1: and Company, offered to publish the novel. Joyce set to

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Speaker 1: work on writing the rest of the book. He finished

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Speaker 1: writing in October of nine, though revisions continued throughout the

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Speaker 1: rest of the year. On February two, the first edition

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Speaker 1: of one thousand copies went on sale. The book was

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Speaker 1: paper bound with a blue cover with white lettering. Seven

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty copies were normal issue. One d and

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Speaker 1: fifty numbered copies were printed on a larger format handmade paper,

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Speaker 1: and one hundred were signed by Choyce. Each of its

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Speaker 1: eighteen chapters are named after an episode of Homer's epic Odyssey.

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Speaker 1: Most of the novel follows Leopold Bloom, the main character,

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Speaker 1: around Dublin over the course of one day. Leopold is

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Speaker 1: written as a modern counterpart to Odysseus, while the other

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Speaker 1: two central characters, Stephen Dedalus and Molly Bloom, aligned with

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Speaker 1: the mythological Telemachus and Penelope. The book is known for

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Speaker 1: its use of the stream of consciousness technique, it's experimentation

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Speaker 1: with language inform, its literary illusions, is robust characterizations, and

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Speaker 1: its humor. The book was immediately successful. Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway,

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Speaker 1: and W. B. Yates were some of the books notable

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Speaker 1: early purchasers. Within eighteen weeks, the first edition had sold out.

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Speaker 1: Beach published another edition each year until ninety five. In

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Speaker 1: the US, the book was banned because it was considered pornographic,

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Speaker 1: but the band was lifted in nineteen thirty five in

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Speaker 1: Random House became the u S publisher of Ulysses. While

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Speaker 1: Joyce had made a little money from the serialization of Ulysses,

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Speaker 1: the publication of the book was much more lucrative. He

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Speaker 1: settled into a middle class lifestyle and began work on

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Speaker 1: the text that was eventually called Finnigan's Wake. Over the years,

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Speaker 1: Ulysses has been subject to plenty of analysis by its fans, critics,

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Speaker 1: and scholars of like. The value of Joyce's impact on

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Speaker 1: modern and post modern fiction has been debated, and Ulysses

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Speaker 1: has been considered too complex and inaccessible, but the book

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Speaker 1: is recognized as a pivotal text in literary history. I'm

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Speaker 1: Eve Jeff Coote, and hopefully you know a little more

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