Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Après mot, le déluge: the ego as symptom
- 2 The ego, the nation, and degeneration
- 3 Joyce the egoist
- 4 The esthetic paradoxes of egoism: from negoism to the theoretic
- 5 Theory's slice of life
- 6 The egoist vs. the king
- 7 The conquest of Paris
- 8 Joyce's transitional revolution
- 9 Hospitality and sodomy
- 10 Hospitality in the capital city
- 11 Joyce's late Modernism and the birth of the genetic reader
- 12 Stewardship, Parnellism, and egotism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - Hospitality and sodomy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Après mot, le déluge: the ego as symptom
- 2 The ego, the nation, and degeneration
- 3 Joyce the egoist
- 4 The esthetic paradoxes of egoism: from negoism to the theoretic
- 5 Theory's slice of life
- 6 The egoist vs. the king
- 7 The conquest of Paris
- 8 Joyce's transitional revolution
- 9 Hospitality and sodomy
- 10 Hospitality in the capital city
- 11 Joyce's late Modernism and the birth of the genetic reader
- 12 Stewardship, Parnellism, and egotism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
After he woke me last night same dream or was it? Wait. Open hallway … That man led me, spoke. I was not afraid. The melon he had he held against my face. Smiled: creamfruit smell. That was the rule he said. In. Come. Red carpet spread. You will see who. (U, 3: 365–69)
IRISH HOSPITALITY
Why is it at times easier to recreate the atmosphere of Joyce's Dublin in places such as Zurich, Paris, Philadelphia? It cannot just be that there are more James Joyce pubs in these cities than in Dublin or that the Bloomsday celebrations have turned into mass-produced tourist attractions! Is it because as readers we enjoy our imitatio Joyci when following a familiar paradigm of exile and displacement? Or is it because, as Terry Eagleton pointedly notes, Joyce's compliment to Dublin is incredibly backhanded? Here is what Eagleton has to say about the internationalist ethos of Modernism:
Joyce's compliment to Ireland, in inscribing it on the cosmopolitan map, is in a sense distinctly backhanded. The novel celebrates and undermines the Irish national formation at a stroke, deploying the full battery of cosmopolitan modernist techniques to re-create it while suggesting at the same time with its every breath just how easily it could have done the same for Bradford or the Bronx.
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- James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism , pp. 153 - 178Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001