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Incursions of the Real Incursions of the Real
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1 Text and the City: Dublin, Cultural Intimacy, and Modernity
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Published:November 2015
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Abstract
Dublin in James Joyce's spectral imagination is akin to a phantom limb. His literary modernism turns on what is absent or off the page, an apophatic style in which text is intimately bound up with context, and language re-enacts the material texture of the city. In keeping with Wittgenstein's argument that language is embedded in a form of life, Joyce's language operates as if a physical acquaintance with the city and its social practices are required to complete sentences, with the fiction in turn giving the impression, as Joyce remarked, that the city could be rebuilt from his prose. Joyce's narrative techniques chart cultural intimacy in a new way, allowing the stranger access to the inner life of a city and the native Dubliner to become part of a wider cosmopolitan world. By this means, Joyce pioneered a vernacular modernism in which the local is universal, and national literature becomes world literature. Joyce's revolution of the word draws on the “open secrets” of a colonial public sphere, a coded cultural space shared with the republican political underground in the decades leading up to the 1916 Irish rebellion.
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