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10503838 No.10503838 [Reply] [Original]

Is it necessary to read Ulysses first if you want a full appreciation of postmodern literature?

>> No.10503842

Ulysses is modern.
Finnegan's Wake is postmodern.
Neither are essential for understanding.

>> No.10504018

>>10503842
Ulysses is pomo, stupid. Don't parrot. Read it and see for yourself.

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>>10504018
>Ulysses is pomo

>> No.10504033

>>10504029
not that guy.
but youre retarded if you get all finicky about post/pre-modern.
In the ultimate eyes of history anything pre-internet memes will be re-qualified as modern art.

>> No.10504158

>>10503838
what no go read jameson, lyotard, derrida, or some shit if you want to understand pomo lol

>> No.10504198

>>10504158
there's no way I'm going to attempt to jump into post-structuralist philosophy without having read the hundreds of years that came before it. I'll get there eventually though!

>> No.10504248

>>10504198
>fell for the timeline meme
dont be scared THEYRE JUST WORDS ON A PAGE lol

>> No.10504271

>>10503842
fpbp

>> No.10506171

thread hijack: anyone got anything interesting to say about music/noise in Ulysses? Writing a paper on that atm

>> No.10506918

So is IJ, to tell the truth. Not even memeing.

>> No.10508166

>>10503838
Is anyone else scared to read Ulysses? I'm approaching 30 and I still haven't read it.

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>>10504018
>definitive Modernist novel
>PoMo

>> No.10508425

>>10508166
I'd advise you to tackle it early, because you need to read it more than once. I read it at 25, then again 5 years later. The second time was the payoff ... I appreciated it twice as much as before. I plan to read it again before long.

Besides, if you don't get Ulysses under your belt soon, how will you get to Finnegans Wake?

>> No.10508447

>>10506171
It isn't that big of a deal outside of Sirens.

>> No.10508471

>>10506171
>Grossbooted draymen rolled barrels dullthudding out of Prince's stores and bumped them up on the brewery float.
One of my favourite sentences in Ulysses.