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”
