"Nightown", "Necropolis", "Jerusalem" : les figures de la ville dans Ulysses de James Joyce

This paper proposes to inquire into the textual functions played by the city of Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses. Leaving aside the questions of the town-like or maze-like structure of the text itself and the hieroglyphic tracery of the flâneur's path—for these aspects have already been amp...

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Main Author: Philippe Birgy
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Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2009-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acs/1630
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description This paper proposes to inquire into the textual functions played by the city of Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses. Leaving aside the questions of the town-like or maze-like structure of the text itself and the hieroglyphic tracery of the flâneur's path—for these aspects have already been amply documented by Joycean scholars—it concentrates on the communal dimension that underlies Joyce's writing and on the stylistic inscription of a democracy to come that reaches beyond nationalism and citizenship (the latter being comically presented as Bloom's celestial Jerusalem). It also considers the town's monumental and paralyzing forces, but without opposing them squarely to the transience and mobility of literary signs.
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"Nightown", "Necropolis", "Jerusalem" : les figures de la ville dans Ulysses de James Joyce
Anglophonia
ville
démocratie
Ulysses
Joyce
Dublin
Jérusalem
title "Nightown", "Necropolis", "Jerusalem" : les figures de la ville dans Ulysses de James Joyce
title_full "Nightown", "Necropolis", "Jerusalem" : les figures de la ville dans Ulysses de James Joyce
title_fullStr "Nightown", "Necropolis", "Jerusalem" : les figures de la ville dans Ulysses de James Joyce
title_full_unstemmed "Nightown", "Necropolis", "Jerusalem" : les figures de la ville dans Ulysses de James Joyce
title_short "Nightown", "Necropolis", "Jerusalem" : les figures de la ville dans Ulysses de James Joyce
title_sort nightown necropolis jerusalem les figures de la ville dans ulysses de james joyce
topic ville
démocratie
Ulysses
Joyce
Dublin
Jérusalem
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