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| Titel: |
Teleology without a Telos?: Constitutive Absence in Leopold Bloom's Pilgrimage |
| Auteur: |
Szczeszak-Brewer, Agata |
| Verschenen in: |
Mobilities |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 2 (2007) nr. 3 pagina's 347-362 |
| Jaar: |
2007-11 |
| Inhoud: |
The central argument of this paper highlights a search for the elusive centre in James Joyce's Ulysses. Joyce, through the figure of Leopold Bloom (and other characters), portrays pilgrimage whose form and meaning depart from the traditional sacred quest. While retaining crucial qualities of the pilgrim - even if his destination proves to be intangible -Bloom also embodies a collective (though cacophonous) metaphor for identity-building: the figures named by Zygmunt Bauman as the stroller, the vagabond, the tourist and the player. The price Bloom pays for travelling in a fragmented milieu is the frustrating mobility of the telos in his quest. Fragmentation and deracination in turn-of-the-century Ireland make the already difficult task of finding the centre virtually impossible. Joycean pilgrimage proves to be ineffective partly because the main characters in Ulysses resist convenient compartmentalisation that could provide a sense of belonging and, therefore, an uncomplicated, but often false, path to self-recognition. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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