The Dubliner in Each of Us (“The Sisters” and the logic of what is said)

Autori

  • Amara Rodovalho University of Campinas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v16i0.3552

Abstract

Considering both published versions of James Joyce’s “The Sisters,” this essay discusses the relation between each other in order to question the validity of using the journal version (1904) to increase the intelligibility of the one published in Dubliners (1914). The analysis will attempt to demonstrate that here we may find the first flickerings of Hugh Kenner’s “The Arranger” and that the mirror Joyce intended Dubliners to be may have been transforming us critics into its own characters.

Keywords: James Joyce; The Sisters; gnomon; sodomy; indeterminacy.

Biografia autore

  • Amara Rodovalho, University of Campinas

    Amara Rodovalho is a transsexual woman with a Master’s Degree in Literary Theory. She recently translated Dubliners to Portuguese and now is a PhD fellow student at University of Campinas – SP (Brazil), under the supervision of Fabio Akcelrud Durão. Her project focuses on Joycean onomatopoeias and the indeterminacy of meanings that pervades Ulysses.

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Pubblicato

2014-11-17

Fascicolo

V. 16 (2014): ABEI Journal 16

Sezione

100 Years of Dubliners

Come citare

Rodovalho, A. (2014). The Dubliner in Each of Us (“The Sisters” and the logic of what is said). ABEI Journal, 16, 11-20. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v16i0.3552