Nestor
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Nestor is the second episode of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," focusing on Stephen Dedalus’s morning teaching at a boys’ school and his reflections on history and authority.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nestor (Ulysses episode) | 0 |
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chapter of a novel
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episode of a novel ⓘ |
| author | James Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Homeric figure Nestor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralActivity | Stephen Dedalus teaching at a boys’ school ⓘ |
| containsCharacter |
Cyril Sargent
NERFINISHED
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Mr Deasy NERFINISHED ⓘ schoolboys taught by Stephen Dedalus ⓘ |
| correspondsTo | Nestor episode in Homer’s Odyssey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Stephen Dedalus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Proteus (Ulysses episode) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Telemachus (Ulysses episode) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | modernist fiction ⓘ |
| hasInterpretation |
often read as critique of didactic authority
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often read as meditation on the burden of history ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
British imperialism
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Irish history ⓘ economic anxiety ⓘ religion and nationalism in Ireland ⓘ role of the teacher ⓘ |
| internalChronology | immediately after events of Telemachus episode ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
free indirect discourse
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interior monologue ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
contrasts Stephen’s ideals with institutional authority
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develops Stephen Dedalus’s intellectual and moral concerns ⓘ |
| partOf | Ulysses (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMedium | print ⓘ |
| proseStyle | dense allusive narrative ⓘ |
| protagonistPerspective | Stephen Dedalus’s reflections on history and authority ⓘ |
| sequenceNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Dalkey
NERFINISHED
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boys’ school in Dublin area ⓘ |
| theme |
authority
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education ⓘ history ⓘ memory ⓘ power relations ⓘ |
| timeInNarrative | morning of 16 June 1904 ⓘ |
| workPublishedIn | Ulysses first published in 1922 ⓘ |
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