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"Scrupulous sympathy" : = James Joyce's "Ulysses" and the ethics of modern sentimentality.

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Title/Author:	"Scrupulous sympathy" :/
Reminder of title:	James Joyce's "Ulysses" and the ethics of modern sentimentality.
Author:	Nicholas, Matthew Brian.
Description:	1 online resource (238 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1797.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780549646525

"Scrupulous sympathy" : = James Joyce's "Ulysses" and the ethics of modern sentimentality.
Nicholas, Matthew Brian.

"Scrupulous sympathy" :James Joyce's "Ulysses" and the ethics of modern sentimentality. - 1 online resource (238 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1797.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University in St. Louis, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references

Addressing the reluctance of Joyce scholarship to explore the role played by sentimentality, I contend with a popular Modernist perspective that argues the subject's indulgence in his or her own feelings and emotions is purchased at the expense of ethical engagement in the social realm. Yet, in his essays Joyce acknowledges the merits of sentimentality, stressing its importance in modernity as vital to the maintenance of ethical relations with others. The importance of sentimentality in modernity and of Joyce's intricate handling of it is, I believe, central to understanding the compassionate, ethical system of Ulysses, one made especially resonant by the atrocities of World War I and by the violence taking place within Ireland at the time of the novel's composition. Drawing on recent work on Joyce, particularly books discussing the colonial politics of Ulysses, I argue that sentimentality both helps and hinders the colonial subject imagine bonds beyond those of merely national or ethnic belonging. In particular, I employ the theories of Eric Santner, Giorgio Agamben, and Slavoj Zizek to illuminate the complex social circumstances the subject must negotiate in modernity in which his or her own desires conflict with those of others. How we perceive those others in an increasingly global world depends upon a sentimental imagination that supplies emotion and sympathy in the wake of the failures of knowledge. Joyce's novel, I argue, posits compassion and sympathy as a crucial means of sustaining social bonds where the desires of citizens remain mysterious and potentially conflicting. Ulysses, then, represents a significant departure from the self-described "scrupulous meanness" with which Joyce portrayed his native city in Dubliners and stresses the crucial role that sentimentality might play in rethinking the conflicts and connections that arise in modernity, be they local, national, or global. My argument thus seeks not simply to show that sentimentality and ethics are related in Ulysses, but rather to argue that they are both synonymous and antithetical to one another: sentimentality is not only the basis of political exclusions that subdue ethical relations, but also the basis of acts of love that engender ethical relations.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780549646525Subjects--Topical Terms:

1148425
British & Irish literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

"Scrupulous sympathy" : = James Joyce's "Ulysses" and the ethics of modern sentimentality.
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