Music, Epiphanies, and the Language of Love: James Joyce’s "Chamber Music"
„The poetical collection, Chamber Music (1907), is probably a minor work, but a minor work by a great author, and the poems prove, by closer inspection, to be less simple than first presumed. The juvenile and self-centred verses give an excellent illustration of the melancholic narcissism, which Joy...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Interlitteraria 2007, Vol.XII (12), p.310-331 |
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Zusammenfassung: | „The poetical collection, Chamber Music (1907), is probably a minor work, but a minor work by a great author, and the poems prove, by closer inspection, to be less simple than first presumed. The juvenile and self-centred verses give an excellent illustration of the melancholic narcissism, which Joyce later castigated intensely in the works of his prime. The masturbatory auto-affection of the narcissist makes the poetical ego incapable of engaging in any interaction with the other, i.e. the beloved (who is revealed as a simulacrum of the poet pure and simple), which is why he characterises himself as “unconsortable” (XXI.5). Since love primarily is directed toward the ego, it seems inexpressible, because the libidinal affect is alienated in the”[…] |
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ISSN: | 1406-0701 |