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Manos, Harry – Physics Teacher, 2022
"Ulysses" by James Joyce (1882-1941) has a surprising amount of 19th-century, classical physics. The physics community is familiar with the name James Joyce mainly through the word "quark" (onomatopoeic for the sound of a duck or seagull), which Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019 -- Physics Nobel Prize 1969) sourced from Joyce's…
Descriptors: Novels, Classics (Literature), Literature Appreciation, Physics
Abel, Jessica Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2018
As a novel that asks how we can live in a world of uncertain values and urgent identity politics, James Joyce's Ulysses could be more relevant than ever, but its textual complexity poses a steep burden to new readers. Teaching Joyce's Ulysses models a new method of teaching Joyce's novel using the theory of fictional possible worlds, which…
Descriptors: Novels, Classics (Literature), Literature Appreciation, Teaching Methods