
On the New Stars in Ulysses
Ulysses is about metempsychosis, and Shakespeare’s soul passes into the body of Bloom. After soaring hyperbolically to a distant cometary aphelion, Bloom is elliptically sun-compelled to obey the summons of gravity, “[w]hence, disappearing from the constellation of the Northern Crown [where T CrB appeared] he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of Cassiopeia” (U 17.2018–20). After incalculable eons of peregrination, the astronomy autodidact emerges from the very same spot in the sky from which, according to Stephen, Shakespeare playing the Ghost in Hamlet had appeared.
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Work Title | On the New Stars in Ulysses |
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Publication Date | 2023 |
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Deposited | February 01, 2025 |
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