Forging, Milking, Delivering: The Female and Maternal as Links Between A Portrait and Ulysses

Authors

  • Biljana Dojčinović

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2011.3.9

Keywords:

Femaleness, mother, Joyce

Abstract

This paper will try to point out that readings of James Joyce’s Ulysses as a son’s quest for his father and a father’s quest for a lost son overlooks a very strong and important element of femaleness in the novel. In fact, the ties between A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses are built upon motifs of femaleness and the mother. The mother figure is inscribed in both novels in various symbol nets, from the first sentence of A Portrait all the way to Molly’s ecstatic inner monologue. Other female figures appear merged one into another in A Portrait and this technique of blurring meaning and shapes remains very important in Ulysses. This paper will take into account a number of “gendered” readings of both novels.

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Published

2011-11-13

How to Cite

Dojčinović, B. . (2011). Forging, Milking, Delivering: The Female and Maternal as Links Between A Portrait and Ulysses. Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies, 3(1), 163–173. https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2011.3.9

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2011): BELLS - volume 3

Section

LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

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