Linati schema for Ulysses

{{short description|Schema for the novel 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.Ellmann, Richard, Ulysses on the Liffey, Oxford University Press, 1986, {{ISBN|978-0-19-501663-5}}, pp. 186-188. The schema has been split into two tables for better ease of reading.

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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{{efn|Blue per Linati.Ellman, p. 188. Corrected to green per Don Gifford.Gifford, Don, with Robert J. Seidman, Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses, Second Edition, University of California Press, 1988, {{ISBN|978-0-520-06745-5}}, p. 44.}}

|

| 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

|

| 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.

| -

|

| -

| Armed hope

Penelope

| \infty

| -

|

| -

| The past sleeps

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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, penis in the bath, froth, flower, drugs, castration, oats

Hades

| Dialogue, narration

| Heart

| Cemetery, sacred heart, the past, the unknown man, the unconscious, heart defect, relics, heartbreak

Aeolus

| Simbouleutike, dikanike, epideictic, 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{{efn|Fuga per canonem: Latin for "fugue according to rule", a musical term for a round.}}

| 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

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References

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