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1 Two Sides of Hemiplegia: On the Affect of Paralysis in Dubliners
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Published:February 2022
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This chapter argues for a reading of the role of paralysis in Joyce’s Dubliners informed by affect theory in combination with a historicized reading of Joyce’s use of the term “hemiplegia” when describing the collection in his letters. In its first section, the essay traces the origin of Joyce’s use of “hemiplegia” to the microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who suffered from this form of partial paralysis after a series of strokes, and whose symptoms closely parallel those of Father Flynn in “The Sisters.” Subsequent sections then lay out a reading of paralysis in Dubliners as inherently partial, where restriction and stasis is matched with too much unstructured freedom of movement. What creates stasis is the imperative to choose without knowing what those choices mean or what results they will have, such that the freedom the characters experience is limited by uncertainty. Through readings of “Evaline,” “An Encounter,” “Araby,” “A Little Cloud,” and “The Dead,” this chapter shows how the metaphorical use of hemiplegia opened Joyce’s book to a complex affective universe, where one is never either free or paralyzed, but paralyzed by a freedom hemmed by incomplete information and a character’s lack of awareness of the full scope of their problems.
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