All 4 Uses of
robinson crusoe
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life.†
Chpt 6
- O, poor Robinson Crusoe!†
Chpt 6
- Robinson Crusoe had to live on them.†
Chpt 8 *
- (Bloom walks on a net, covers his left eye with his left ear, passes through several walls, climbs Nelson's Pillar, hangs from the top ledge by his eyelids, eats twelve dozen oysters (shells included), heals several sufferers from king's evil, contracts his face so as to resemble many historical personages, Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Byron, Wat Tyler, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides, Moses Mendelssohn, Henry Irving, Rip van Winkle, Kossuth, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Baron Leopold Rothschild, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes, Pasteur, turns each foot simultaneously in different directions, bids the tide turn back, eclipses the sun by extending his little finger.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(Robinson Crusoe) Daniel Defoe's famous novel and the name of its main character -- a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island (1719)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) untracked name in this novel