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Blurring The Lines: The Ambiguity Of Gender And Sexuality In Ulysses, Samantha Heffner
Blurring The Lines: The Ambiguity Of Gender And Sexuality In Ulysses, Samantha Heffner
The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities
One of the most memorable episodes in James Joyce’s Ulysses occurs in the “Circe” chapter, when Leopold Bloom is transformed into a woman during his masochistic encounter with Bella Cohen, who herself transforms into a man. This gender swap is often cited as the culmination of Bloom’s feminine nature in the novel—not only is he the “new womanly man,” but he has also literally become a new woman (16.1798-1799). Such a confusion of gender has inspired a wide array of responses as critics attempt to wrestle with this rather confusing—if endearing—modern Ulysses. Bloom’s effeminate nature has also given rise to …
The Future Of Joyce's A Portrait: The Künstlerroman And Hope, David Rando
The Future Of Joyce's A Portrait: The Künstlerroman And Hope, David Rando
English Faculty Research
This essay aims to capture some of the future effects that result from A Portrait's manipulation the artist novel genre. Drawing on Ernst Bloch's distinctions between the detective and the artist novel genres, this essay views A Portrait as a hybrid of both genres, at once obsessed with detective fiction's 'darkness at the beginning' (as emblematized by Stephen's anxiety surrounding the Foetus inscription) and the artist novel's 'not-yet' (as emblematized by the wish image of Stephen's green rose). A Portrait's status as an artist novel is complicated by Stephen's reprisal in Ulysses, but this essay argues that, …