The character of Maria in Clay is the product of Joyce`s vision of human beings and his highly sophisticated and complex narrative technique The puzzle and the irony of the story is that the witchlike, poor, old, spinster, Maria, is the only character in Dubliners who is content with her life, though occasionally her suppressed desires seep out Still she is called a veritab..
Joyce`s deep-rooted Parnellism is well known and his interest in socialism, especially during his writing of Ivy Day in the Committee Room, is undeniable, as evidenced by his letters and biographies But the question can be raised on how these seemingly conflicting causes can coexist in Joyce`s mind, for there seems to be an unbridgeable gap between Irish middle-class n..
James Joyce identifies the British Empire and the Irish Catholic Church as the Irish men`s authoritarianism and the spiritual authority in his fiction, particularly in Dubliners The unnamed boys, sharing the same characteristics of personality, in The Sisters, An Encounter, and Araby in the novel suffer from the same psychological anxieties caused by the regulation of ..
Just as Dubliners serves as a looking-glass to show the corruption of the long-colonized Irish, Ulysses suggests a soap with which to wash the perverted mentality Leopold Bloom, the oppressed-yet-loving Jewish-Irish, buys and carries a lemony soap with him all day around Dublin The lemon soap that may work for the spiritual liberation of Ireland represents the Irish self-..
This essay attempts to examine how Joyce materializes the stream of life We use the notions of parallax and peristalsis, forming the process of life Although the two notions appertain to different categories, such as perspective and movement, they can combine to represent the physical principle that difference leads to movement In a Bloomesque idea of life, the difference ..
This essay aims at delving into the current theoretical relevance of Joyce`s (non-)fictional pronouncements as to the question of the unity of subject of the self, be it sexual, racial, or national, in conjunction with Derrida`s project of deconstruction of Western metaphysics The focus of this essay is chiefly given on their resounding and profound critiques of purism..
An Irish born exile, Samuel Beckett with his experience of dislocation is well comparable with James Joyce, another expatriate Irish writer Beckett`s most important distinction from the other stems from the often resolute expulsion of Irish contexts from his work Despite the obsessional memories of Irish landscapes and sounds he cherished from his childhood, his repulsio..