The Erotic in Joyces A Painful Case Essay -- Painful

The Erotic in Joyces A Painful fibre The characters whom inhabit Joyces world in Dubliners, often have, as Harvard Literature professor Fischer stated in lecture, a limited way of thinking astir(predicate) and understanding themselves and the world around them. Such determinism, however, operates not on a broad cultural scale, but works in smaller, to a greater extent local, more interior and more idiosyncratic ways. That is, the forces which shape Joyces characters are not of necessity cultural or socioeconomic in nature, but rather, as Prof. Fischer stated, are tiny, and work on a more intimate level. In whatsoever case, as a result of such forces, these stories often tend to be about something, as Prof. Fischer said, that doesnt happen, about the romance of yearning and self-disappointment. Joyces point A Painful Case is a perfect example of a story about something that doesnt happen, and more specifically, about the romance of yearning. It is through such ye arning, however, and the variant erotic forms that such yearning takes, that Joyces characters are able to transcend the forces which govern their lives. In A Painful Case the erotic takes on one-third separate forms mental, physical, and what I call, auditory. Although all three play a consumption in the story, it is only through auditory eroticism that Joyces protagonist, Mr. Duffy, comes to experience a moment of self-transcendence. While auditory eroticism may serve, in the end, as the conduit for Duffys self-transformation, initially it is mental eroticism that brings together Mr. Duffy and Mrs. Sinico. Joyce writes, Little by little(a) he (Duffy) entangled his thoughts with hers. He lent her books, provided her with ideas, shared... ...llowed to shine in ripe poetic fervor and reality, although Joyce attempts to escape it, seeps back in through his rowing and metaphors. Works Cited and Consulted Bidwell, Bruce and Linda Heffer. The Joycean Way A Topograph ic Guide to Dubliners and A portrait of the workman as a Young Man. Johns Hopkins Baltimore, 1981. Gifford, Don. Joyce Annotated Notes for Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. University of California Berkeley, 1982. Joyce, James. Dubliners. Penguin Books New York, 1975. Peake, C.H. James Joyce The Citizen and the Artist. Stanford University Stanford, 1977. Tindall, William York. A Readers Guide to James Joyce. Noonday Press New York, 1959. Walzl, Florence L. Dubliners. A attach to Study to James Joyce. Ed. Zack Bowen and James F. Carens. Greenwood Press London, 1984