James Joyce, Urban Planning, and Irish Modernism

Lanigan, Liam

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“…41 In this light, we can understand the critiques that Joyce re-presents the Monto as a "bourgeois pleasure palace" 42 that exists as "an ideologically blank canvas onto which the repressed desires and fears of the male population can be surreptitiously projected, and then disregarded." 43 Yet this ascription of slum tropes to James Joyce would fail to reflect on the fact that this episode is principally shown from the perspective and eyes of Leopold Bloom; this is not Joyce's re-presentation of the Monto, but more precisely Bloom's. What Joyce stages is not the Monto itself, but rather the various tropes and stereotypes with which Bloom perceives the Monto.…”

Section: On Dublin Slums In Ulyssesmentioning

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“…39 In effect, the "Circe" narrative reproduces the environmental determinist idea that red-light districts in slums were often perceived by middle-and upper-class Ireland as a moral contagion or pollution that had to be contained. 40 For example, in 1876 Cork City it was reported that "in a very short space of time the visitor [to the red-light district] necessarily becomes corrupted by evil association and carry with them to other parts of the city, the infection of this horrid plague spot." 41 In this light, we can understand the critiques that Joyce re-presents the Monto as a "bourgeois pleasure palace" 42 that exists as "an ideologically blank canvas onto which the repressed desires and fears of the male population can be surreptitiously projected, and then disregarded."…”

Section: On Dublin Slums In Ulyssesmentioning

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Can the Slumdweller Speak? James Joyce and Mediating Dublin Slum Discourse

Woods

2022

Journal of Urban History

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The concern of this article surrounds the discourse of recent calls by elite researchers to do away with the “s-word,” to quote Mike Davis’s endorsement of Alan Mayne’s (2017) groundbreaking new study. I take issue not with their critique of the idea of the “slum,” even if others have pointed out limitations in their visions (Harris 2018), but rather in their essentialist assumption: accepting as ontological fact the pre-given existence of a geographical body identified by others as a “slum,” they only disagree that this categorization does not accurately represent the “essence” of that space. Their critical discourse may resolve issues with the particular conceptions and stereotypes associated with the term, “slum,” but it does not effectively challenge the theoretical and practical foundations on which that term rests. Against current post-slum calls for a more accurate representation of these spaces, I conclude with a call to abandon the logic underpinning both slum and post-slum discourses of the twenty-first century: the assumption of a bounded and identifiable space with “naturally” representable interests. To demonstrate this thesis, I turn to a reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) as a means to re-orient researchers’ relationship with mediating and re-presenting the slum. This reading of Ulysses calls for researchers to embrace a diverse set of subject formations, modes of habitation, and fluid residencies that can no longer be contained within the ontologies of slum and post-slum discourses.

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Section: On Dublin Slums In Ulyssesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: On Dublin Slums In Ulyssesmentioning

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Can the Slumdweller Speak? James Joyce and Mediating Dublin Slum Discourse

Woods

2022

Journal of Urban History

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“…Dubliners live and die in a cheap replica of a European city, which holds its grip around their necks and does not give them any chance of escape. Joyce conveys that people are unaware of the powers that the city holds and which forcefully make them stay where they are (Lanigan 2014: 2) The citizens never think about moving out, going abroad, or changing their situation because they are utterly paralysed by Dublin.…”

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“Exile from Ireland Left Him a Stranger Everywhere“: Representation of Dublin in Selected Louis Macneice’s Poetry and Some of the Stories from James Joyce’sDubliners”

Czernecka

2020

Studia Celtica Posnaniensia

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This paper discusses the representation of Dublin in the selected poetry of Louis MacNeice and some of the stories from James Joyce’s collection Dubliners. A close investigation of the city as a representative of urban space is interlinked with an examination of its role from the perspective of psychogeography. Both techniques are applied to show why and how two Irish authors portray the multi-dimensional decay of life in the city. In order to paint a whole picture of the relation between ‘space’ and ‘human’, I will also review the biographies of MacNeice and Joyce. For MacNeice, who was tormented by the experiences of domestic Belfast, going to the South was a promising escape. Yet, the change of urban setting did not bring him the expected result. MacNeice quickly became aware of the dirty, paralysed face of Dublin. Similarly, the childhood and day-to-day reality of the lower-middle-class profoundly shaped Joyce’s perspective of Dublin and, eventually, prompted him to go into deliberate exile in Europe. In his writings, however, Dublin constitutes the focal point of the structure, becoming an active participant in the events. Therefore, Dublin for MacNeice and Joyce is a place characterized by blandness, powerlessness in the face of foreign influences, and suffering caused by inertia.

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Joyce’s Blinders: An Urban Ecocritical Study of Dubliners and More

Kelly

2017

Rethinking Joyce's Dubliners

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James Joyce, Urban Planning, and Irish Modernism

Cited by 12 publications

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Can the Slumdweller Speak? James Joyce and Mediating Dublin Slum Discourse

Can the Slumdweller Speak? James Joyce and Mediating Dublin Slum Discourse

“Exile from Ireland Left Him a Stranger Everywhere“: Representation of Dublin in Selected Louis Macneice’s Poetry and Some of the Stories from James Joyce’sDubliners”

Joyce’s Blinders: An Urban Ecocritical Study of Dubliners and More

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