Reading Dubliners Again: A Lacanian Perspective

396 Pages·1993·13.813 MB·English

by  Garry M. Leonard

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M.
Leonard
Reading
Dubliners
Again
A Lacanian
Perspective

Reading Again
Dubliners
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Reading
Dubliners
Again
A Lacanian Perspective
Garry M. Leonard
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Syracuse University Press
Copyright © 1993 by Syracuse University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Leonard, Garry Martin, 1956-
Reading Dubliners again : a Lacanian perspective / Garry M.
Leonard.
p. cm. — (Irish studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8156-2574-X - ISBN 0-8156-2600-2 (pbk.)
1. Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Dubliners. 2. Lacan, Jacques, 1901-
Contributions in criticism. 3. Masculinity (Psychology) in
literature. 4. Dublin (Ireland) in literature. 5. Psychoanalysis
and literature. I. Title. II. Series: Irish studies (Syracuse
N.Y.)
PR6019.09D876 1993
823'.912 —dc20
92-33860
Manufactured in the United States of America
For Kathy, Raymond, and Marshall
Garry M. Leonard is assistant professor of English, University of
Toronto, Scarborough Campus. His many articles have appeared in the
James Joyce Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, Edith Wharton Review, Nine¬
teenth Century Studies, Novel, and College Literature.
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. Spilling Whiskey on the Corpus
Jacques Lacan and Dubliners i
2. The Free Man’s Journal
The Making of His[S]tory in “The Sisters” 24
3. The Detective and the Cowboy
Desire, Gender, and Perversion in “An Encounter” 56
4. The Question and the Quest
The Story of Mangan’s Sister 73
5. Wondering Where All the Dust Comes From
Jouissance in “Eveline” 95
6. Living for the Other in “After the Race” 113
7. Men in Love
The Woman as Object of Exchange in
“Two Gallants” 118
8. Ejaculations and Silence
Sex and the Symbolic Order in
“The Boarding House” 132
9. “Why had he married the eyes in the photograph?”
The Gaze in “A Little Cloud” 149
10. In No Case Shall the Said Bernard Bernard Bodley Be .. .
Repetition and Being in “Counterparts” 170
viii Contents
11. Where the Corkscrew Was
The Purpose of Insignificance in Joyce’s “Clay” 184
12. Love in the Third Person in “A Painful Case” 210
13. “It’ll be all right when King Eddie conies”
The Pathetic Phallacy in “Ivy Day in the
Committee Room” 228
14. Mrs. Kearney and the “Moral Umbrella” of
Mr. O’Madden Burke
A Mother’s Quest for the Phallus 256
15. “With God’s grace I will rectify this and this”
Masculinity Regained in “Grace” 272
16. “Perhaps she had not told him the whole story”
The Woman as a Symptom of Masculinity
in “The Dead” 289
17. Boxing My Own Corner
3°9
Notes
325
Works Cited
353
Index
361