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The Epic Fantasy Life Of Molly Bloom: A Psychoanalytic Reading Of Unconscious Desire In The Penelope Episode Of James Joyce's Ulyssess, Brett Thomas Griffin
The Epic Fantasy Life Of Molly Bloom: A Psychoanalytic Reading Of Unconscious Desire In The Penelope Episode Of James Joyce's Ulyssess, Brett Thomas Griffin
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2008
Despite often being mislabeled as a 'stream-of-consciousness' narrative, recent archival discoveries and theoretical examinations have revealed the Penelope episode of James Joyce's Ulysses to be as scrupulously arranged as the rest of the novel. Over the course of the day, Leopold Bloom's fantasies recast the Odyssean homecoming as a modern epic. But they represent only half of the story, only half of the conflicted desires that have sundered the Bloom's marriage bed. I propose that the unconscious desires that speak through the fantasy life of Molly Bloom engage in the same Odyssean process of reclaiming and rebuilding the home visible …
"...And Poldy Not Irish Enough...": Nationalism And Ideology In James Joyce's Ulyssess, Laura Barberan Reinares
"...And Poldy Not Irish Enough...": Nationalism And Ideology In James Joyce's Ulyssess, Laura Barberan Reinares
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2008
Following Louis Althusser‘s and Slavoj Zizek‘s analyses of ideology, then, I want to explore the representations of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom in terms of their response to the hegemonic discourses espoused by Catholicism and Nationalism (both linked to Empire). With this intention, I will concentrate on Episode Ten, ―"The Wandering Rocks,"since from the characters‘ actions and conversations as they intersect in the streets of Dublin we can extrapolate the ideological narratives in which Ireland was immersed at the time. I suggest that the personal struggle for ideological liberation Joyce initiated with Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait necessarily led to …