AO3 Flashcards
Wallace Gray - dual nature
“dual realistic and symbolic nature”
Wallace Gray - the modernist on the city
“the modernist is hostile to city life”
Wallace Gray - the modernist on culture
“the modernist finds culture itself to be drab and shallow”
Wallace Gray - existentialism
“we live in a world that offers no meaning or purpose to existence, one in which we feel alienated from the self and others, in which there are no clear moral standards”
Wallace Gray - love
“love is absent”
Wallace Gray - f.i.d
“the character “infects” the prose style of the writer”
Wallace Gray - effects of chiasmus
“Joyce achieves a number of effects through the extensive chiasmus … he provided the incantatory effect of the kind of intonations of chants one would hear in Church. The effect is also numbing”
Wallace Gray - chiasmus/repetition to show paralysis
“the sense of a lack of forward movement, of a passage turning in on itself in repetitive images, the essence of paralysis”
Herring - truth of the narrative
“neither the boy nor the reader can know the truth they seek”
Herring - elliptical language
“the text is filled with elliptical language filtered through the consciousness of a bewildered youth”
Herring - gnomonic nature of the language
“gnomonic nature of the story’s language: it is elliptical, evasive, sometimes mysterious”
Herring - triteness
“Questing characters in Dubliners are frequently assaulted by something I call a “tyranny of triteness,”
Herring - escape
“Dubliners seek to fly by nets erected to keep them down”
Herring - avoiding censorship
“the author need not fear censorship because libelous thoughts are in the reader’s mind, not in the text”
Herring - reader response to gnomonic langugae
“Readers are thus urged to examine the implications of what is missing … how shadows illuminate presences, how abnormality can define the normal”
Herring - paralysis
“centuries of political and religious oppression had caused a general paralysis of mind and will”
Riquelme - perspective
“Oscillating perspective”
Riquelme - pschological
“Joyce can include the psychological within a physical description”
Riquelme - narrator presence
“The narrator always asserts his presence and his difference from the characters”
Riquelme - spech vs silence
“The boy’s development is toward speech. Eveline’s is toward silence.”
Riquelme - snow in The Dead
“he becomes aligned with both the snow that falls and what it falls upon”
Riquelme - Gabriel’s change
“his previously held attitudes and perspectives fade, and the new ones that begin to form are superimposed on them”
Riquelme - ambiguous epiphany The Dead
“Gabriel learns something that help him to develop or that he is destroyed”
Riquelme - effect of repetition
“their insistent, even mechanical, quality can disturb the realistic illusion”
Riquelme - illusion of the perfect past
“The original to be repeated never existed”
Norris - Clay narrator
“Its narrative self-deception attempts, and fails, to mislead the reader”
Norris - Maria’s desires
“the “old maid”: a figure who seems to lack everything and therefore embodies total desire”
Norris - narrative gratifying Maria
“The distinctive features of the story’s narration serve the function of gratifying Maria’s desire for recognition.”
Norris - reader deciding how to interpret the narrative
“the reader must decide whether to trust the narrated speech or the narrated gestures”
Trevor L Williams - British power
British power is the ultimate determining factor upon the forms of Irish economic and political life
Williams - sexuality
Sexuality may be…commodified
Williams - Corley’s coin
A fitting tribute to this commodity fetishism that so pervades Joyce’s Dublin
Vincent J Cheng - Mangan’s sister
“Mangan’s sister induces in the boy a rapturous ectasy of chivalric romance and religious adoration”
Homi Bhabha
“orientalism is…the site of dreams, images, fantasies, myths”
Vincent J Cheng - female idolisation
“The boy partakes in the female idolisation and deification”
Vincent J Cheng - Madonna
Objectifies her into an essentialised image of the Madonna
Vincent J Cheng - feminine other
The adolescent male desire for a feminine Other
Vincent J Cheng - disillusioned
Its cheap commercialism and drab conversation seem to cheapen the secret world of dreams and desire
Vincent J Cheng - Ireland’s commercialism
Commercialised Ireland that has been prostituted to Mammon
