"Virginia Woolf and James Joyce: Ariadne and the Labyrinth" --1982
See 68 & 69
See 73
"The greatness of Ulysses would have established itself, but Joyce felt compelled to accelerate its recognition whenever, wherever he could. .... continued on 74.
"Moreover, his characters were unaware of the ancient text against which they spoke: Bloom is not conscious of the classical forbears in whose steps he treads." (75)
"We can now see that Joyce was Daedalus...(see 76 continued quote)...Woolf's task was to remember Ariadne"
See onto 77 through 80
"Theseus betrayed Ariadne, leaving her to the world of female myth and female possibility." (81)
"Woman for Joyce, beyond her sexual hungers, is nature, earth, as man is culture and civilization. She is what continues as man goes about his human concerns." (81)
"Joyce, in the same years, wanted a new way to say the same things, being no longer disposed to say them in the old way. Joycean critics agree that his three novels are the same pattern re-created" (85-86)
"Their tasks were done. Joyce had written, in the new and ultimate language, the old cosmology, elegantly configured. Woolf had suggested how a new cosmology might be created. Woolf went in search of Ariadne, and Joyce threaded again the old labyrinth. Between them lay all the literary possibilities of the next age." (86)
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