From Bird Girls to Bat Souls: Joycean Transformations of a Homeric Trope

We read a funny episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses as a valuable reworking of a motif from his earlier Portrait. In “Nausicaa”’s parody, Stephen Dedalus’s bird girl has become Leopold Bloom’s bat-girl, and Homer’s little black trope returns in multiple roles as awakening soul, priestly vampire, and se...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Mosaic (Winnipeg) 2018-06, Vol.51 (2), p.189-204
Hauptverfasser:	GLEASON, MICHAEL, MacMASTER, ANNE C.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Allusion Authors Bats Bildungsroman Birds British & Irish literature Classical literature Consciousness Criticism and interpretation Epic literature Erotica Essays Exegesis & hermeneutics Fate Greek literature Heroism & heroes Homer (C 8th Century BC) Irish literature Joyce, James Joyce, James (1882-1941) Literary canon Literary criticism Literary devices Literary translation Literature Misogyny Narrative techniques Novels Parody Politics Tropes Writers
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Zusammenfassung:	We read a funny episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses as a valuable reworking of a motif from his earlier Portrait. In “Nausicaa”’s parody, Stephen Dedalus’s bird girl has become Leopold Bloom’s bat-girl, and Homer’s little black trope returns in multiple roles as awakening soul, priestly vampire, and sexual liaison.
ISSN:	0027-1276 1925-5683 1925-5683
DOI:	10.1353/mos.2018.0025