Gilbert scheme

The Gilbert Scheme is a table written by James Joyce in 1921 to make it easier for his friend Stuart Gilbert to read Ulysses . In this way it was possible to grasp the symbol and motif structures of the individual chapters of the book. Each chapter is assigned a setting, an organ, a symbol (or a symbolic figure) and a certain narrative or language technique, but this does not mean that the Ulysses is organized according to a dry construction principle.

chapter	designation	Location	time	organ	colour	symbol	art	technology
1	Telemachos	tower	8 o'clock	-	White / gold	heritage	theology	Narrative (young)
2	Nestor	school	10 O `clock	-	brown	horse	history	Catechism (personal)
3	Proteus	Beach	11 clock	-	green	flood	philology	Monologue (male)
4th	Calypso	House	8 o'clock	kidney	orange	nymph	Economy	Narrative (adult)
5	Lotophages	bath	10 O `clock	genitals	-	Eucharist	Botany / chemistry	narcissism
6th	Hades	graveyard	11 clock	heart	White / black	mortician undertaker	religion	Incubism
7th	Aiolos	newspaper	12 o'clock	lung	red	typesetter	rhetoric	Enthymemics
8th	Laistrygons	lunch	13 o'clock	esophagus	-	police officers	architecture	peristalsis
9	Scylla and Charybdis	Library	14 o'clock	brain	-	Stratford / London	literature	dialectic
10	Symplegaden	Street	3pm	blood	-	Citizen	mechanics	labyrinth
11	Sirens	Concert hall	4 p.m.	ear	-	Barmaids	music	Fugue per canonem
12	The Cyclops	Pub	17 o'clock	Muscles	-	nationalist	politics	Gigantism
13	Nausicaa	rock	8 p.m.	Eye , nose	Gray / blue	Virgin	painting	Tumescence / detumescence
14th	Cattle of Helios	hospital	22 O `clock	Womb	White	mother	medicine	Development of the embryo
15th	Kirke	brothel	Midnight	Musculoskeletal system	-	whore	magic	hallucination
16	Eumaios	Cabmans Shelter	1 O 'clock	annoy	-	sailor	navigation	Narration (old)
17th	Ithaca	House	2 O 'clock	skeleton	-	comet	science	Catechism (impersonal)
18th	Penelope	bed	-	flesh	-	earth	-	Monologue (female)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulysses . Annotated edition with maps and person index, in the German translation by Hans Wollschläger. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41585-9 , p. 1080f.