{"title":"\"Form of Forms\": Meter and Sound as Registers of Irish Identity in James Joyce's Ulysses","authors":"Kristen H. Starkowski","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay situates meter and sound as important registers of struggles with difference and identity among the triad of male characters iin James Joyce's Ulysses. Dactylic verse connected with Buck Mulligan's name and character, for example, reveals his anxieties about nationality and masculinity, while Stephen's anapestic thinking directly challenges dominant meter and evokes images of fluidity consistent with his beliefs about an Irish natioanl epic and his mother's death. Finally, Bloom's ruminations on the meter and sound of his own thoughts reflect his concerns about his marriage. Through these readings, the essay positions attention to metrical forms as a method of analyzing casts of mind and characters' approaches to language in Ulysses.","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":"59 1","pages":"455 - 469"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","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.2022.0006","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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Abstract:This essay situates meter and sound as important registers of struggles with difference and identity among the triad of male characters iin James Joyce's Ulysses. Dactylic verse connected with Buck Mulligan's name and character, for example, reveals his anxieties about nationality and masculinity, while Stephen's anapestic thinking directly challenges dominant meter and evokes images of fluidity consistent with his beliefs about an Irish natioanl epic and his mother's death. Finally, Bloom's ruminations on the meter and sound of his own thoughts reflect his concerns about his marriage. Through these readings, the essay positions attention to metrical forms as a method of analyzing casts of mind and characters' approaches to language in Ulysses.
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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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