Ulysses episode "Nausicaa"
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"Nausicaa" is a stylistically experimental episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, centering on Leopold Bloom's voyeuristic encounter with Gerty MacDowell on Sandymount Strand and exploring themes of desire, sentimentality, and perception.
All labels observed (2)
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| Ulysses episode "Nausicaa" canonical | 2 |
| Nausicaa episode of Ulysses | 1 |
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Target entity: Ulysses episode "Nausicaa" Context triple: [Ulysses episode "Penelope", relatedWork, Ulysses episode "Nausicaa"]
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Ulysses episode "Penelope"
"Penelope" is the final, stream-of-consciousness episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, presenting Molly Bloom’s unpunctuated interior monologue and concluding the book with her famous "yes" soliloquy.
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Ulysses episode "Calypso"
"Calypso" is the fourth episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, introducing Leopold Bloom and depicting his domestic morning routine in Dublin.
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Ulysses episode "Ithaca"
"Ithaca" is the penultimate, catechism-style episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, depicting Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus’s late-night return to Bloom’s home and their reflective, quasi-scientific dialogue.
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Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus is a dramatic Romantic-era oil painting by J.M.W. Turner depicting Odysseus’s taunting escape from the blinded Cyclops Polyphemus in Homer’s Odyssey.
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Ulysses (serialization)
Ulysses (serialization) is the original magazine publication of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, issued in installments in the early 1920s before its full book release.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Ulysses episode "Nausicaa" Target entity description: "Nausicaa" is a stylistically experimental episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, centering on Leopold Bloom's voyeuristic encounter with Gerty MacDowell on Sandymount Strand and exploring themes of desire, sentimentality, and perception.
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A.
Ulysses episode "Penelope"
"Penelope" is the final, stream-of-consciousness episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, presenting Molly Bloom’s unpunctuated interior monologue and concluding the book with her famous "yes" soliloquy.
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B.
Ulysses episode "Calypso"
"Calypso" is the fourth episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, introducing Leopold Bloom and depicting his domestic morning routine in Dublin.
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C.
Ulysses episode "Ithaca"
"Ithaca" is the penultimate, catechism-style episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, depicting Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus’s late-night return to Bloom’s home and their reflective, quasi-scientific dialogue.
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D.
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus is a dramatic Romantic-era oil painting by J.M.W. Turner depicting Odysseus’s taunting escape from the blinded Cyclops Polyphemus in Homer’s Odyssey.
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E.
Ulysses (serialization)
Ulysses (serialization) is the original magazine publication of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, issued in installments in the early 1920s before its full book release.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chapter of a novel
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episode of a novel ⓘ |
| alludesTo |
Nausicaa (Homeric character)
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Odyssey ⓘ |
| author | James Joyce ⓘ |
| centralEvent |
Leopold Bloom masturbates while watching Gerty MacDowell
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Leopold Bloom watches Gerty MacDowell on the beach ⓘ |
| characterAction | Gerty MacDowell displays herself knowingly to Bloom ⓘ |
| characterDetail |
Gerty MacDowell has a lame leg
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linked to:
Gerty MacDowell
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| HomericParallel | Odysseus’s encounter with Nausicaa in Phaeacia ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
controversial for its explicit sexual content
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noted for its parody of popular sentimental style ⓘ |
| locationOfFictionalEvent |
Dublin
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Irish Sea shore ⓘ
linked to:
Irish Sea coast
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| mainCharacter |
Gerty MacDowell
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Leopold Bloom ⓘ |
| motif |
advertising and consumer goods
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fireworks on the beach ⓘ religious imagery ⓘ women’s magazines and romance literature ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
parody of sentimental fiction
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romance‑magazine pastiche ⓘ stylistically experimental ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
free indirect discourse
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interior monologue ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ulysses (novel)
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linked to:
Ulysses
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| positionInWork | one of the later episodes of Ulysses ⓘ |
| relatedCharacter |
Cissy Caffrey
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Edie Boardman ⓘ Jacky Caffrey ⓘ Molly Bloom ⓘ Tommy Caffrey ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Ulysses episode "Circe" ⓘ |
| setting | Sandymount Strand ⓘ |
| structure | divided into two contrasting stylistic halves ⓘ |
| theme |
Catholic morality
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desire ⓘ disability and sympathy ⓘ gender roles ⓘ mass culture and consumerism ⓘ perception ⓘ romantic illusion versus reality ⓘ sentimentality ⓘ sexual repression ⓘ the male gaze ⓘ voyeurism ⓘ |
| timeOfFictionalEvent | evening of 16 June 1904 ⓘ |
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Subject: Ulysses episode "Nausicaa" Description of subject: "Nausicaa" is a stylistically experimental episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, centering on Leopold Bloom's voyeuristic encounter with Gerty MacDowell on Sandymount Strand and exploring themes of desire, sentimentality, and perception.
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linked to: Ulysses episode "Nausicaa"