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»And in the porches of mine ear did pour«: Shakespeare’s Influence in Chapter 9 of James Joyce’s Ulysses

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Niederhoff, B. »And in the porches of mine ear did pour«: Shakespeare’s Influence in Chapter 9 of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, 65(1), 205-228. https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.2024.1445308
Niederhoff, Burkhard "»And in the porches of mine ear did pour«: Shakespeare’s Influence in Chapter 9 of James Joyce’s Ulysses" Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 65.1, 2024, 205-228. https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.2024.1445308
Niederhoff, Burkhard (2024): »And in the porches of mine ear did pour«: Shakespeare’s Influence in Chapter 9 of James Joyce’s Ulysses, in: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, vol. 65, iss. 1, 205-228, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.2024.1445308
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»And in the porches of mine ear did pour«: Shakespeare’s Influence in Chapter 9 of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Niederhoff, Burkhard

Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, Vol. 65 (2024), Iss. 1 : pp. 205–228

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Abstract

In the ninth chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus presents a theory about Shakespeare and his works to a group of Dublin literati. The present article outlines this theory and examines to what extent it applies to the novel in which it is presented. Stephen describes Shakespeare as a puppet determined by the circumstances of his life, in particular the sexual trauma inflicted on him by his wife; this biographical and reductivist argument can be related to the naturalist dimension of Ulysses, its pessimism and its photographic realism. Stephen also celebrates Shakespeare as a god-like creator of identities and characters; this dimension of the theory can be related to the intertextuality of Ulysses, the richness and open-endedness of its quotations and allusions. Finally, the theory turns the scene from Hamlet in which the ghost of the murdered king tells his son to take revenge for his murder into an allegory of intertextuality, an uncanny and antagonistic encounter between a paternal and a filial poet.

Table of Contents

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Burkhard Niederhoff: »And in the porches of mine ear did pour«: Shakespeare’s Influence in Chapter 9 of James Joyce’s Ulysses 205
Abstract 205
I. Introduction 205
II. A Brief Guide to Scylla and Charybdis 208
III. The Author as Prisoner of His Biography 212
IV. The Author as God-like Creator 217
V. Hamlet 1.5 in Ulysses: An Allegory of Intertextuality 220
Primary Sources 227
Secondary Sources 227

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