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- Title
The Iambic Muse: Gerty's Metaformations in Ulysses.
- Authors
Grimaldi-Pizzorno, Patrizia
- Abstract
This article on Joyce's Ulysses 13 argues that Gerty's fetishized feet and lame leg function as verbal, visual, and aural symbols that guide the readers through an intertextextual labyrinth. It shows that the Nausicaa episode does not just re-enact the mythic Homeric encounter between a foreign man and an unguarded girl on the beach of Phaeacia, but alludes simultaneously and repeatedly to other versions, classical and modern, of the original erotic-elegiac encounter. The author contends that Gerty MacDowell, like the scriptae puellae of Latin elegy and Ovid in particular, is a textualobject fabricated by the artist-lover. She is Bloom's flawed erotic masterpiece.
- Subjects
ULYSSES (Book : Joyce); JOYCE, James, 1882-1941; MACDOWELL, Gerty; PEOPLE with disabilities in literature; EROTICISM in literature
- Publication
Classical Receptions Journal, 2017, Vol 9, Issue 2, p177
- ISSN
1759-5134
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/crj/clw004