Martin Greene
Articles by Martin Greene
2022
2020
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Hungarian Connections
The reasons for the presence of so much Hungarian-related material in ‘Ulysses’ are unknown, but Bloom’s foreign origins clearly facilitate his portrayal as an outsider,…
2019
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Irish Literature
Stranger Danger
Stoker’s Count Dracula and Joyce’s Lipoti Virag are both dangerous intruders, the former threatening to infect the English with vampirism, the latter subverting the Irish…
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Irish Literature
Stoker’s Surprise Package
The ‘Dracula’ author’s penultimate novel, published in 1909, is a rollicking tale of adventure, an excursion into science fiction which presciently foresees the future development…
2018
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World Literature
An Irish Impresario
Augustin Daly was for thirty years the proprietor-manager of one of New York’s most successful theatre companies. Shaw castigated Daly for his failure to embrace…
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Irish Literature
An Idea Madder than Usual
It is well-known that Joyce drew on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs when writing the sadomasochistic scenes in Ulysses. Masoch’s name today may be…
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Irish Literature
The Hardest Problem
Joyce drew on his theories in creating Leopold and Molly Bloom. Freud thought he was ‘highly gifted but sexually deranged’. Wittgenstein thought he was ‘great’,…
2017
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Irish Literature
The Virags and the Blooms
It’s often said that Ulysses “has no story”. This is true in the sense that it doesn’t have a single story which captures the essence…