Browsing by Subject "Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation"
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- ItemBeyond Impulse: The Pleasurable Death of Certainty in Ulysses(2010) Amendolara, Ben; Mohan, Rajeswari
- ItemGendered Undoing Through Music in James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’(2016) Rennert, Sara; Finley, C. Stephen
- Item“Ireland sober is Ireland free”: the confluence of nationalism and alcohol in the traumatic, repetitive, and ritualistic response to the famine in James Joyce’s Ulysses(2005) Baillie, Brian; Sherman, DeboraJoyce deftly weaves the fabric of Irish life in Ulysses. One can easily picture his characters walking down the most obscure of streets and encountering the most immediate of acquaintances. The lyrical nature of Irish conversation provides the linguistic backdrop for the various challenges of language that Joyce embarks upon throughout the novel. From remembering the dead to requesting a pint amongst friends, a mimetic portrait of Dublin is created through the text. Perhaps the most stereotypical of activities in the Irish social fabric is drinking, which both produces and reproduces a nationalist rhetoric. The scene of a dark pub filled with men scorned by the English inevitably becomes filled with political rhetoric and rebel cries. The confluence of drinking and nationalist fervor occurs in the “Cyclops” episode of Ulysses; those imbricated discourses enact a stranglehold on the Irish populace. This drinking is social and not necessarily abusive, a fact noted in Joyce’s breezy language in the “Hades” episode, “Expect we’ll pull up here on the way back to drink his health. Pass round the consolation. Elixir of life.” This particular description embodies many of the elements within this stereotype. In that carriage, the Irish men view alcohol as the natural outlet for mourning and death; Bloom, however, stands far outside the society where, in the original Irish, usquebeagh is in fact the “waters of life”, or “elixir of life”. That space of death and misery in the larger historical context is, arguably, the source of a drinking culture.
- ItemPassage into Infinity: An Exploration of Molly Bloom's Escape from Joyce and Ulysses(2013) Maatouk, Tania; Mohan, Rajeswari
- Item“Poor girl!” : Feminism, Disability and the Other in Ulysses(2006) Flaherty, Patricia; Sherman, DeboraThe purpose of this study is to examine Gerty MacDowell in Nausicaa, Chapter 13 of James Joyces Ulysses, and how her overwhelming femininity affects her disability, and how that conflation of femininity and disability largely engages feminist disability theory. Gerty MacDowell prides herself on the active sexualizing of her own body. In the interaction between Bloom and Gerty, disability is recognized textually as her link to humanity. In recognizing Gerty's disability, Bloom is able to recognize as well as reflect on his own disabilities albeit figurative but still very integral in the way he views himself. By recognizing that disabilities are part of all human lives, Ulysses promotes a theory of disability studies that is extremely positive and helps to break down the stigmatizing of the disabled. Gerty's disability also helps further an argument relating not to disability, but rather to human imperfection. We come into contact with many transgressions on the part of the characters, and Gerty's disability reminds the narrative that disabilities/mistakes/transgressions are part of what it is to be human. This recognition helps ideas regarding disabilities in a way that promotes a more realistic idea about the body and makes the unrealistic and damaging ideal body untenable.
- ItemSelections from James Joyce's "Ulysses"(1991) Miller, Jacqueline; Wright, Kathleen, 1944-; Macbeth, Danielle
- Item"Signs on a white field": James Joyce, Ulysses, and the postcolonial sublime(2004) Fischette, Michael; Devenney, Christopher, 1961-The purpose of this study is to examine the ways in which James Joyce's Ulysses is imbued with a kind of Postcolonial sublime. In doing so my hope is to prove that Joyce's text is, in a way, a performance: through his wide-ranging use of distinct figures, tropes, and motifs, Joyce acts out and reconciles himself with the trauma of colonization. Most importantly, however, in Ulysses Joyce attempts to articulate the ontological status of a group--the colonized--that has heretofore gone radically unarticulated. "Nothing can describe well enough the extraordinary deficiency of the colonized," Albert Memmi writes, pointing to the colonial subject's under-representation; but in Ulysses, Joyce without question succeeds in figuring this "deficiency" by upending traditional notions of "text," "identity," and "language." In the end, Joyce subverts the very medium in which he writes: he appropriates the tongue of the colonizer in order to re-establish himself in the aftermath of colonization.
- Item'Ulysses': Activating Nietzsche(2012) Schoch, Timothy E.; Mohan, Rajeswari