James Joyce and the Writing of the Tomb

IF 0.1 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES
Craig Buckwald
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Abstract:James Joyce's well-known remark that the puzzles and enigmas of Ulysses could ensure his "immortality" points to a central but largely unrecognized aspect of his two big books and, to a lesser extent, of all literature. Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are examples par excellence of how literary works are inherently a defiant response to mortality in its most capacious sense, as the transitory condition of all people and things. The two works defy mortality by performing with extraordinary effectiveness the memorializing and symbolic functions performed by "tombs" of all types. Seeing Ulysses and the Wake in this way challenges some widely held beliefs about Joyce's art. It also allows us to understand the works anthropologically, as essentially funerary artifacts that, in conjunction with "ritual" activities, both preserve traditional civilized order, values, and thought and selectively reforge them for the modern world.
詹姆斯·乔伊斯与墓的书写
摘要:詹姆斯·乔伊斯关于《尤利西斯》的谜题和谜团可以确保他的“不朽”的著名评论,指出了他的两部巨著的一个核心但在很大程度上未被认识到的方面,在较小程度上也是所有文学的一个核心方面。《尤利西斯》和《芬尼根守灵夜》是文学作品如何从本质上对死亡做出最广泛意义上的反抗性回应的杰出例子,死亡是所有人和事物的短暂状态。这两件作品以非凡的效果表现了各种类型的“坟墓”所具有的纪念和象征功能,蔑视死亡。以这种方式看待《尤利西斯与守灵夜》挑战了人们对乔伊斯艺术的一些普遍看法。它也让我们从人类学的角度来理解这些作品,它们本质上是丧葬文物,与“仪式”活动结合在一起,既保留了传统的文明秩序、价值观和思想,又有选择地为现代世界重新塑造它们。
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期刊介绍: 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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