Linati schema for Ulysses

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This schema, or explanatory outline, for the novel Ulysses was produced by its author, James Joyce, in 1920 in order to help a friend (Carlo Linati) understand the fundamental structure of the book.[1] The schema has been split into two tables for better ease of reading.

Title Time
Colour
 People Science / Art Meaning
Telemachus 8 — 9 a.m. Gold / white Theology Dispossessed son in contest
Nestor 9 — 10 a.m. Brown History The wisdom of the ancients
Proteus 10 — 11 a.m. Green[a] Philology Primal matter
Calypso 8 — 9 a.m. Orange
Mythology
 The departing wayfarer
Lotus Eaters
 9 — 10 a.m.
Dark brown
 Chemistry The temptation of faith
Hades 11 a.m. — 12 noon Black-white - The descent into nothingness
Aeolus 12 noon — 1 p.m. Red Rhetoric The derision of victory
Lestrygonians 1 — 2 p.m. Blood red Architecture Despondency
Scylla and Charybdis
 2 — 3 p.m. - Literature The double-edge sword
Wandering Rocks
 3 — 4 p.m. Rainbow Mechanics The hostile milieu
Sirens 4 — 5 p.m. Coral Music The sweet deceit
Cyclops
 5 — 6 p.m. Green Surgery Egocidal terror
Nausicaa 8 — 9 p.m. Grey Painting The projected mirage
Oxen of the Sun
 10pm - 11pm White
  • Lampetie
  • Phaethusa
  • Helios Hyperion
  • Jove
  • Ulysses
 Physics The eternal herds
Circe 11 p.m. — 12 midnight Violet
  • Circe
  • The Swine
  • Telemachus
  • Ulysses
  • Hermes
 Dance The man-hating ogress
Eumaeus 12 midnight — 1 a.m. - - The ambush on home ground
Ithaca 1 — 2 a.m. -
  • Ulysses
  • Telemachus
  • Eurycleia
  • The suitors
 - Armed hope
Penelope - - The past sleeps
Title Technic
Organ
 Symbols
Telemachus Dialogue for three and four,

narration, soliloquy

- Hamlet, Ireland, Stephen
Nestor Dialogue for 2,

narration, soliloquy

- Ulster, woman, practical sense
Proteus Soliloquy - World, tide, Moon, evolution, metamorphosis
Calypso Dialogue for 2,

soliloquy

Kidneys Vagina, exile, nymph, Israel in captivity
Lotus Eaters
 Dialogue, prayer, soliloquy Skin Host,
froth, flower, drugs, castration, oats
Hades Dialogue, narration Heart
heart defect, relics, heartbreak
Aeolus
tropes
 Lungs Machines, wind, fame, kite, failed destinies, the press, mutability
Lestrygonians Peristaltic prose Oesophagus Bloody sacrifice,

food, shame

Scylla and Charybdis Whirlpools Brain Hamlet,

Shakespeare, Christ, Socrates, London, Stratford, scholasticism, mysticism, Plato, Aristotle, youth,

maturity

Wandering Rocks
 Shifting labyrinth between two shores Blood Caesar,

Christ, errors, homonyms, synchronisms, resemblances

Sirens Fuga per canonem[b] Ear Promises,

female, sounds, embellishments

Cyclops
 Alternating asymmetry Muscles, bones Nation,

state, religion, dynasty, idealism, exaggeration, fanaticism, collectivity

Nausicaa Retrogressive progression Eye, nose Onanism,

feminine, hypocrisy

Oxen of the Sun
 Prose, embryo, foetus, birth Matrix, uterus Fertilisation,

frauds, parthenogenesis

Circe Exploding vision Locomotor apparatus, skeleton Zoology,

personification, pantheism,

magic
, poison, antidote, reel

Eumaeus Relaxed prose Nerves -
Ithaca Dialogue, pacified style, fusion Juices -
Penelope Monologue, resigned style Fat -

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Blue per Linati.[2] Corrected to green per Don Gifford.[3]
  2. ^ Fuga per canonem: Latin for "fugue according to rule", a musical term for a round.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-19-501663-5
    , pp. 186-190.
  2. ^ Ellman, p. 188.
  3. ISBN 978-0-520-06745-5
    , p. 44.

External links
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