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James Joyce: I. Am. A. Discover Dublin By Reading And Running, Barry Sheehan
James Joyce: I. Am. A. Discover Dublin By Reading And Running, Barry Sheehan
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You are walking through it howsomever. I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short times of space.
James Joyce (Ulysses,p.31).
In Ulysses, on the morning of the 16th June 1904, Stephen Dedalus is striding on Sandymount strand, thinking about time and place as he moves. Later in the day, Leopold Bloom writes I. AM. A.with a stick in the sand on the same Sandymount strand. His scrubbed words will wash away with the tide but remain forever in the novel.
Using geotracking, I recreated the same ephemeral I. AM. …
James Joyce's Model Dublin, Barry Sheehan
James Joyce's Model Dublin, Barry Sheehan
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“You are walking through it howsomever. I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short times of space.” (Joyce,1986, p.31).
James Joyce wrote about Dublin from a position of exile. He created a model Dublin, one in which he mixed people and places, events and activities, real and imagined and combined them into a city that suited his own ends.
This imagined city has been examined remotely in a multiplicity of ways, and by people in a way that the real city has not. One can ask whether it is Dublin at all? …