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    STUDIA EPHEMERIDES - Issue no. 1 / 2013  
         
  Article:   “I WAS JUST GOING TO THROW IT AWAY”: ULYSSES AS THE ANTI-NEWSPAPER.

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  Abstract:  James Joyce is, like many other modernist writers, often considered to have strongly rejected the newspaper as the medium of choice for the newly literate masses. However, Ulysses borrowed a lot from the form, style and selection of content that is applied in newspapers. In this essay, I will consider the various ways in which Joyce employed newspaper techniques in this work. I argue that Ulysses is an anti-newspaper, as it borrows heavily from the newspaper, yet it serves to inform the reader about life in general rather than about the events of a single day. At the same time, I will look into the ways in which Joyce used the newspaper as a medium himself to convey his opinions to a larger audience and to advertise his works, how the publication of Ulysses clashed with the idea of mass printing, and how Joyce was already looking ahead to the next big medium in which he saw more possibilities of depicting daily life, that of the film.

Keywords: newspaper, modernism, James Joyce, Ulysses 		 
         
     
         
         
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