학술논문
Looking at Animals without Seeing Them: Havelock Ellis in the 'Circe' Episode of Ulysses
Document Type
article
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Source
Humanities, Vol 6, Iss 3, p 73 (2017)
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Language
English
ISSN
2076-0787
Abstract
Taking wing from Joyce’s reading of Havelock Ellis’s Studies in the Psychology of Sex, in which the Irish writer found an account of cross-species sexual contact, this essay explores Leopold Bloom’s animal metamorphosis in the “Circe” episode of Ulysses. It argues that this encounter with the nonhuman animal is subordinated to the cause of working through barriers of human difference. In the process, the animal that enables this reconciliation disappears. Unable to represent animal interiority, “Circe” settles for merely probing their interiors.