PARALYSIS AS “SPIRITUAL LIBERATION” IN JOYCE’S DUBLINERS Iven Lucas Heister, B.A.【翻译】

Heister, Iven Lucas. Paralysis as “spiritual liberation” in Joyce’s Dubliners. Master of Arts (English), May 2014, 50 pp., references, 26 titles.
In James Joyce criticism, and by implication Irish and modernist studies, the word paralysis has a very insular meaning. The word famously appears in the opening page of Dubliners, in “The Sisters,” which predated the collection’s 1914 publication by ten years, and in a letter to his publisher Grant Richards. The commonplace conception of the word is that it is a metaphor that emanates from the literal fact of the Reverend James Flynn’s physical condition the narrator recalls at the beginning of “The Sisters.” As a metaphor, paralysis has signified two immaterial, or spiritual, states: one individual or psychological and the other collective or social. The assumption is that as a collective and individual signifier, paralysis is the thing from which Ireland needs to be freed. Rather than relying on this received tradition of interpretation and assumptions about the term, I consider that paralysis is a two-sided term. I argue that paralysis is a problem and a solution and that sometimes what appears to be an escape from paralysis merely reinforces its negative manifestation. Paralysis cannot be avoided. Rather, it is something that should be engaged and used to redefine individual and social states.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Chapter
1. INTRODUCTION: PARALYSIS AS “SPIRITUAL LIBERATION”................................1
2. “THE SISTERS”: THE CHALICE AS TOTALITY CONTAINING NOTHING............20
3. “ARABY”: THE IMAGE THAT TRIED TO CONTAIN NOTHING .............................28
4. “EVELINE”: A GLIMPSE OF INFINITY........................................................................35
5. “A LITTLE CLOUD”: ALWAYS A CERTAIN “SOMETHING”...................................46
6. CONCLUSION: A SYMBOL FOR NOTHING IN “THE DEAD”..................................53
WORKS CITED ............................................................................................................................57

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