Ulysses: Notes on "Telemachus"

STYLE: highly conventional, unreflective, as is appropriate to
the false, empty gaiety of the chapter; secure omniscient stance;
dependence on descriptive adverbs; style typical of low-brow
fiction since the early 20th century.

               +

Beginnings of stream of consciousness

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Beginnings of Joyce's high style


Examples: 

     Conventional style - 4
     Stream of consciousness - 3, 8-9, 12, 17-18
     High style - 4, 10

Maybe a fourth, the absurd, all-inclusive
observer/commentator/journalist, e.g. 6-7

HOMERIC PARALLEL:   Stephen = Telemachus
                    Mulligan = Antinoos
                    Haines = another suitor

     USURPATION an important motif

Non-parallel: Stephen is both motherless and fatherless (his
mother and father both were/are threats to elude)

IRELAND: Stephen, Mulligan, Haines
     
     Stephen   - perverted saint (backwards Jesuit)
               - bard (forging the uncreated conscience of his
                    race)
     Mulligan  - gay betrayer, clown, jester 
     Haines    - foreign lord

Mulligan is particularly vile, a puppet king, a usurper in many
senses.

Mulligan & Stephen: 7-8, 12
Haines & Stephen: 16-17

MOTHERS: Ireland; the old woman; Stephen's mother; Kathleen ni
Houlihan.