Narration under a Blindfold: Reading Joyce's "Clay"
Traditional allegorical readings of Joyce's Dubliners story "Clay" have tended to collude with the story's rhetorical aim of aggrandizing the figure of Maria. The estimation of the "old maid" is indeed the story's crux, and the exigencies of desire compel the manip...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
1987
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PMLA
Year: 1987, Volume: 102, Issue: 2, Pages: 206-215 |
| Further subjects: | B
Girard, René (1923-2015)
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| Summary: | Traditional allegorical readings of Joyce's Dubliners story "Clay" have tended to collude with the story's rhetorical aim of aggrandizing the figure of Maria. The estimation of the "old maid" is indeed the story's crux, and the exigencies of desire compel the manipulative textual strategies that render the story ambiguous and produce conflicting interpretations. The story thereby achieves a fine dramatization of the precarious ontology of the old maid, a dramatization in which the fragmented reader (whose ear and eye are in conflict) participates as a principal actor. |
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| ISSN: | 1938-1530 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern Language Association of America, PMLA
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/462549 |