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This essay revisits the difficulty around “musical” interpretations of the “Sirens” episode of Ulysses. It argues that reading the episode through a looser notion of the fugue than previously suggested can contribute significantly to the understanding of the episode’s texture, narrative mediation, and renderings of affect, without committing to the establishment of formal correspondences between literary and fugal structures that more literal “fugal” readings of the episode tend to require. Furthermore, the essay suggests that the “fugal” quality of the episode is best understood as an extra-diegetic semiosis-through-composition that draws upon, interacts with, and at times perverts the language of diegetic characters, and that Bloom’s journey to the musical world of the Sirens is best understood as modulations in modes of meaning-making throughout the episode that lean into or move away from this second-level, musical semiosis.
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Founded in 1963 at the University of Tulsa by Thomas F. Staley, the James Joyce Quarterly has been the flagship journal of international Joyce studies ever since. In each issue, the JJQ brings together a wide array of critical and theoretical work focusing on the life, writing, and reception of James Joyce. We encourage submissions of all types, welcoming archival, historical, biographical, and critical research. Each issue of the JJQ provides a selection of peer-reviewed essays representing the very best in contemporary Joyce scholarship. In addition, the journal publishes notes, reviews, letters, a comprehensive checklist of recent Joyce-related publications, and the editor"s "Raising the Wind" comments.
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