Ulysses

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Primary Identity: Ulysses chronicles the parallel Dublin wanderings of advertising canvasser Leopold Bloom, young writer Stephen Dedalus, and Bloom's wife Molly on June 16, 1904, mapping each episode onto Homer's Odyssey Core Thesis: By compressing an entire classical epic into 24 hours of ordinary urban consciousness through stream-of-consciousness interior monologue and shifting stylistic parodies, Ulysses redefined the structural boundaries of the 20th-century novel Tripartite Homeric Architecture: Organized into Part I (Telemachia, Episodes 1–3 centering on Stephen Dedalus), Part II (Odyssey, Episodes 4–15 centering on Leopold Bloom), and Part III (Nostos, Episodes 16–18 culminating in Molly Bloom's unpunctuated soliloquy) Stylistic & Formal Polymorphism: Episodes shift radically in narrative form—from newspaper headlines ("Aeolus") and dramatic script ("Circe") to mathematical catechism ("Ithaca") and unpunctuated interior monologue ("Penelope")

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