{"title":"The \"Cyclops\" Episode and Fractured Irish Identity","authors":"Michael Patrick Gillespie","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2023.a927910","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay takes up Joyce's subversion of the concept of a unified Irish identity. It focuses on the \"Cyclops\" episode of <i>Ulysses</i> to develop the idea that in Joyce's novel Irishness has become an empty concept. Instead, isolation and hostility emerge as the dominant cultural features. Examples concentrate on the episode's unnamed narrator, but they also touch on the behavior of all of the others in Barney Kiernan's pub to show the pervasiveness of cultural alienation.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2023.a927910","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay takes up Joyce's subversion of the concept of a unified Irish identity. It focuses on the "Cyclops" episode of Ulysses to develop the idea that in Joyce's novel Irishness has become an empty concept. Instead, isolation and hostility emerge as the dominant cultural features. Examples concentrate on the episode's unnamed narrator, but they also touch on the behavior of all of the others in Barney Kiernan's pub to show the pervasiveness of cultural alienation.
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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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