![]() In these episodes Joyce presents a sensorial critique on Dublin’s culture and, by contrasting the Dubliners with Bloom, makes it possible to identify the causes for Dublin’s paralysis, in the annihilation of the intellect in favour of the sensual life. In Ulysses it is possible to recognise that there are certain episodes in which one of the senses dominates over the others, not absolutely, but sufficiently enough to establish a distinct connection between this sense and the events taking place. Bloom does not rely only on his sensorial perceptions to explore the reality surrounding him, but constantly meditates on his senses to extract a deeper understanding of the world, moving beyond the visible and tangible in search of meaning. While the Dubliners misuse their senses and indulge too much in the sensual life, Mr. This thesis examines the role of the five senses in James Joyce’s Ulysses, focusing particularly on the contrast between Leopold Bloom and the Dubliners. This doubling space of alterity will be traced in this thesis in order to reveal a crisis for the subject in the irreducible state for “being-in-itself” that is locked in the sacred space of literature and present at the final experience of the limit to the Outside. The Outside space demands an ethical response from each subject called into question and afflicted with the haunting nature of being a double. Therefore, Blanchot’s notion of the “neuter” will be used to explore the critical character of the narrator that questions the subject within the narrative from the exterior God like position, also linked to Blanchot’s notion of the “Outside”. Moreover, the dialogic of negativity opens up a dialogue between the subject’s relation to language and the subject that is questioned within the narrative. Here, the subject’s experience of separation manifests itself into signs of “affliction” that resembles a state of “dying” as being faces absence. Thus, once the subject’s negative thought doubles into the negation of absence, being becomes infinitely estranged by language. As being faces the limit to language, the subject faces the limits to being seen as another negative presence. The dialectic of negativity arises from the problem of separation that comes between being and language. ![]() The theme of death and dying will be explored in each chapter through the dialectic of negativity. Blanchot’s writings on the “limit-experience” will be used as a methodological approach to the problem of being in relation to language. ![]() I will argue that being in relation to language manifests itself into an ethical problem that can be traced back to the subject’s search for an origin. This thesis will examine the problem of alterity that presents itself for “being” in relation to “language” in James Joyce’s Dubliners, Stephen Hero, A Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake.
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