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'Stone Hopes': Statues and the Politics of Longing in Joyce's Work

'Stone Hopes': Statues and the Politics of Longing in Joyce's Work ANNE FOGARTY ‘STONE HOPES’: STATUES AND THE POLITICS OF LONGING IN JOYCE’S WORK Ekphrasis, the verbal account of a visual image, is a rhetorical convention much deployed by modernist authors. Ekphrastic description paradoxically permits an interfusion of the arts and becomes a means for written texts to acquire but also probe the aura surrounding the supposedly silent and superior visual media. This essay considers how Joyce deploys the ambiguous processes of commentary and metacritique linked with this Classical rhetorical device in the numerous allusions to public monuments and spaces that punctuate his work. References to well-known Dublin landmarks, including Nelson’s Pillar, the Wellington Monument, and the statue of Daniel O’Connell, to name but a few, routinely figure in Joyce’s texts. They help to create a sense of the precise geography of the city and also act as a means of unfolding the symbolic resonances and occluded historical contexts of its streetscapes. As with so many other aspects of the materialities that Joyce’s writings evince, the allusions to Dublin’s statues and monuments create a sense of the chaotic density of lived experience while also dissecting and reflecting on the ideological determinants and psychic substrata underlying everyday existence. The statues of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Dublin James Joyce Journal James Joyce Research Center @ University College Dublin

'Stone Hopes': Statues and the Politics of Longing in Joyce's Work

Dublin James Joyce Journal , Volume 1 – Feb 28, 2012

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James Joyce Research Center @ University College Dublin
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Copyright UCD James Joyce Research Centre and National Library of Ireland
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2009-4507

Abstract

ANNE FOGARTY ‘STONE HOPES’: STATUES AND THE POLITICS OF LONGING IN JOYCE’S WORK Ekphrasis, the verbal account of a visual image, is a rhetorical convention much deployed by modernist authors. Ekphrastic description paradoxically permits an interfusion of the arts and becomes a means for written texts to acquire but also probe the aura surrounding the supposedly silent and superior visual media. This essay considers how Joyce deploys the ambiguous processes of commentary and metacritique linked with this Classical rhetorical device in the numerous allusions to public monuments and spaces that punctuate his work. References to well-known Dublin landmarks, including Nelson’s Pillar, the Wellington Monument, and the statue of Daniel O’Connell, to name but a few, routinely figure in Joyce’s texts. They help to create a sense of the precise geography of the city and also act as a means of unfolding the symbolic resonances and occluded historical contexts of its streetscapes. As with so many other aspects of the materialities that Joyce’s writings evince, the allusions to Dublin’s statues and monuments create a sense of the chaotic density of lived experience while also dissecting and reflecting on the ideological determinants and psychic substrata underlying everyday existence. The statues of

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Dublin James Joyce JournalJames Joyce Research Center @ University College Dublin

Published: Feb 28, 2012

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