Ulysses, Pandemic, and Social Distancing

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Jun 17, 2020 · 1h 1m

Recorded June 16, 2020. The word pandemic – from the Greek πάνδημος – means that which belongs to all people and so works as a kind of plural to the word everyman. Indeed, the Covid-19 pandemic is universal in that it touches everyone, yet it is also singular, each country, indeed, each person experiences it differently. Likewise, Ulysses is the great novel of the universal made individual, as embodied by the book’s protagonist, the ‘everyman’ Leopold Bloom. In this webinar, four leading Joycean scholars will discuss what Joyce’s Ulysses can say about the current crisis. Speakers : Valérie…