Stephen's Discourse of History and Self-Discovery in "Telemachia" of Ulysses

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• This paper deals with "Telemachia" of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), that is, the first three episodes, "Telemachus, " "Nestor, " and lastly "Proteus, " from an historical point of view. The aim of this paper is to analyze these three episodes, especially with the help of the idea of the New Historicism. It was first introduced to literary criticism by Stephen Greenblatt in 1980, when he published Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare to discuss the dynamic relationship between the life and the works of the literary men such as More, Shakespeare, and Marlowe in the English Renaissance. Generally, the aim of the New Historicism consists in the active interpretation of the strained, relations between men of letters and history. Stephen Dedalus portrayed in "Telemachia, " who is agonized by the conflict of the self and absolute reality, or the confrontation between falsehood and truth, or the struggle between vanity vs. actuality, is associated with the man of a Renaissance disposition. Though the theme of "Telemachia" contains the ritual of spiritual initiation of quest for patriarchal order, Stephen's quest for fatherhood requires the severe, uncompromising struggle with the inner self to confront himself face to face. Stephen, therefore, could be regarded as a kind of "Renaissance man" in its modern sense of the word. He seeks truth through the encounter of the values opposite to truth: heresy, treachery, dislike, rebellion, oppression, and so on. To conclude, the drama of self-fashioning developed in "Telemachia" displays the struggle of the young Stephen who starts the lone journey of clarifying the meaning of history and discovering himself through Mulligan and Deasy, who personify offense, hatred, heterodoxy, and betrayal.

著者

• 桑原 俊明

  盛岡大学英語文化学科

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