Event Title
Graduation Year
2010
Location
Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University
Start Date
10-4-2010 9:00 AM
End Date
10-4-2010 10:00 AM
Description
"Among other things my book is the epic of the human body." -James Joyce Ulysses by James Joyce is a paragon of modernist literature. Taking place over the course of a single day, June 16, 1904, Joyce allegorically retells Homer's The Odyssey for the modern age. In a chart published in Stuart Gilbert's James Joyce's Ulysses: a Study, each of the eighteen episodes of Ulysses are shown to correspond to an episode or character of The Odyssey and, with the exception of three episodes, to a specific organ of the human body. Using this systematic diagram as my guide, I have reconstructed Joyce's Ulysses in the form of a life-size drawing of the human body, illustrating each organ using only words from the corresponding episodes of the novel. By pictorially situating Ulysses in this bodily context, I have at once represented and re-presented the themes and ideas explored in this seminal work of fiction. Because of these characteristics, my work is also presently acting as my final study in word-and-image theory, as it is a model hybrid of the two art forms.
Ulysses: The Human Bodyssey
Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University
"Among other things my book is the epic of the human body." -James Joyce Ulysses by James Joyce is a paragon of modernist literature. Taking place over the course of a single day, June 16, 1904, Joyce allegorically retells Homer's The Odyssey for the modern age. In a chart published in Stuart Gilbert's James Joyce's Ulysses: a Study, each of the eighteen episodes of Ulysses are shown to correspond to an episode or character of The Odyssey and, with the exception of three episodes, to a specific organ of the human body. Using this systematic diagram as my guide, I have reconstructed Joyce's Ulysses in the form of a life-size drawing of the human body, illustrating each organ using only words from the corresponding episodes of the novel. By pictorially situating Ulysses in this bodily context, I have at once represented and re-presented the themes and ideas explored in this seminal work of fiction. Because of these characteristics, my work is also presently acting as my final study in word-and-image theory, as it is a model hybrid of the two art forms.