On the Literature of Destruction and James Joyce’s Ulysses

Authors

  • Fabio Akcelrud Durão Universidade Estadual de Campinas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.23.3.211-222

Keywords:

culture, negativity, James Joyce, Ulysses, interior monologue, pain

Abstract

This paper, originally conceived as a keynote talk, is divided into two parts. In the first one, it discusses a current crisis in culture, according to which it is no longer possible to glimpse the other of culture. After arguing for the need to recuperate negativity for the realm of art, the text proposes a reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses that investigates the role of the interior monologue in the representation of psychological immediacy. While this technique meant an advance in the representation of psyche, it also contained in itself the kernel of inorganic thrust that marks the second part of the novel. However, the characters’ fragmentation and the eventual refusal of anthropomorphism does exclude the human. The conclusion is that, taking Ulysses as a starting point, it is possible to imagine what the communication of pain would be.

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Author Biography

Fabio Akcelrud Durão, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Professor do Departamento de Teoria Literária da Unicamp. Formou-se magna cum laude em Português/Inglês pela UFRJ, e obteve o mestrado em Teoria Literária pela UNICAMP. Seu doutorado foi feito na Duke University, onde estudou com Frank Lentricchia e Fredric Jameson. É autor de Modernism and Coherence (Peter Lang, 2008) e Teoria (literária) americana (Autores Associados, 2011); coeditou, entre outros, Modernism Group Dynamics: The Politics and Poetics of Friendship (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008); e organizou Culture Industry Today (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). Editor Associado da revista Alea, publicou diversos artigos no Brasil e no exterior, em periódicos como Critique, Cultural Critique, Latin American Music Review, Loxias, The Brooklyn Rail, e Topicos del Seminario. Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem a Escola de Frankfurt, o modernismo de língua inglesa e a teoria crítica brasileira.

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2013-12-31

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Durão, F. A. (2013). On the Literature of Destruction and James Joyce’s Ulysses. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 23(3), 211–222. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.23.3.211-222

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 3 (2013): Intermidialidade

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Varia

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