Toppling masonry and textual space: Nelson's pillar and spatial politics in ulysses

Irish Studies Review

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 195-203

  Thacker, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1080/713674244     Document Type: Note

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2. Said, Edward. 1994. Culture and Imperialism, 6Vintage.
3. Bhabha, Homi K., 1994. The Location of Culture, 1–2. Routledge. The intertwining of postcolonial theory with postmodernism has also stimulated an interest in spatial topics, if we giant Jameson's contention that postmodernism represents a fundamentally new form of space. See
4. Jameson, Fredric. 1991. Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, 16Verso.
5. Smith, Neu. 1993. “ 'Homeless/Global: Scaling Places' ”. In Mapping the Futures: Local Cultures, Global Change, Edited by: Bird, Jon, Curtis, Barry, Putnam, Tim, Robertson, George, and Tickner, Lisa. Routledge. For this criticism see
6. Kaplan, Garen. 1996. Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement, Duke University Press.
7. Seidel's, Michael. 1976. Epic Geography: James Joyce's Ulysses, Princeton University Press. which does not consider the political ramifications of geography in the novel
8. Lefebvre, Henri. 1991. The Production of Space, Blackwell. I am using the term 'social space' in the sense outlined in, For Lefebvre 'any space implies, contains and dissimulates social relationships' (pp. 82-83) and this social character of space is 'indistinguishable from mental space
9. Lefebvre. Production of Space 38–39.
10. Lefebvre. Production of Space 42
11. Smyth, Gerry. 1997. The Novel and the Nation, 58Pluto.
12. Smyth. The Novel and the Nation 60
13. Joyce and Budgen, Frank. 1972. James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses, 67–68. Oxford University Press.
14. Joyce. 1992. “ 'After the Race' ”. In Dubliners, 39Penguin.
15. Groden, Michael. 1977. Ulysses m Progress, 60Princeton University Press. It is interesting to note that the headlines for 'Aeolus' were only added late in the writing of the novel. The chapter was first published in The Little Review (October 1918) and Groden suggests that the headlines were only added in August 1921; see, It is also significant that the first headline added also omitted the word 'Hibemian'; the later addition to form The Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis' allowed Joyce to add another resonance to the theme of national space that is represented in the nationalist political discussion in the chapter
16. Ellmann, Richard. 1983. James Joyce, rev. edn, 208Oxford University Press. Letter to Stanislaus Joyce, 24 September 1905, cited in
17. Heir, Cheiyl. 1986. Joyce's Anatomy of Culture, University of Illinois Press. On newspapers in this chapter see, chap. 2.
18. Groden. Ulysses in Progress 110
19. Keating, Peter. 1984. “ 'Literature and the Metropolis' ”. In Metropolis 1890-1940, Edited by: Sutcliffe, Anthony. Mansell. Keating, for example, reads this opening as an attempt to render the universal characteristics of the modern metropolis, with a kind of Dickensian eye for detail; see
20. Granville, Gary, ed. 1978. Divided City: Portrait of Dublin 1913, 69Dublin: O'Brien Educational.
21. Ossory, Samuel A., 1977. Fitzpatrick, Dublin: A Historical and Topographical Account of the City, Dublin: Tower Books.
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24. Gibbons, Luke. 1996. Transformations in Irish Culture, 145Cork University Press.
25. O'Brien, Richard Barry. 1909. Dublin Castle and the Irish People, Dublin: Gill. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner
26. Heir. Joyce's Anatomy of Culture 86
27. Foucault, Michel. 1977. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of Ae Prison, Penguin. Nelson thus resembles a kind of imperial panopticon; see
28. Lefebvre. Production of Space 98
29. Ross, Kristin. 1988. The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune, 5–8. Macmillan. An interesting comparison can be drawn between this assault upon a prominent city monument and the destruction of the Vendôme Column in Paris by the Communards, as discussed by, As Ross notes: 'An awareness of social space, as the example of the Vendome Column makes clear, always entails an encounter with history-or better, a choice of histories' (p. 8).
30. 1966. Irish Times, 8 March
31. 1966. Irish Times, 8 March
32. 1966. Irish Times, 8 March As Emmett's famous last words get several mentions in Ulysses this resignification of the pillar might well have appealed to Joyce
33. Blamires, Harry. 1988. The Bloomsday Book, 55Routledge. Moses has been spatially misplaced once already in the chapter, when J. J. O'Molloy wrongly refers to the statue of Moses by Michelangelo as being in the Vatican (Ulysses, p. 134). This error only helps reinforce the theme of imperial relations, however, since the Vatican is officially a capital within the capital city of another country, much as Dublin's 'capital' status is eccentric to the real capital of the British Empire
34. Seidel. Epic Geography 124
35. Friel, Brian. 1981. Translations, Faber. on this point
36. Budgen. James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses 152
37. Lefebvre. Production of Space 86
38. Kiberd, Declan. 1996. Inventing Ireland: The Literature of Ae Modem Nation, Vintage. For the proleptic character of Joyce's text see, chap. 19.
39. Deane. 1990. “ 'Joyce the Irishman' ”. In The Cambridge Companion ta James Joyce, Edited by: Attridge, Derek. 43Cambridge University Press. See Seamus Deane's argument that in Ulysses Joyce is concerned to linguistically 'subvert a political conquest'; that is, 'to make the world conform to words is a characteristic aspiration of a culture which has found it for so long impossible to make its words conform to the world'