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标题：Memory and Marital Dynamics in Ulysses
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作者：Jolanta Wawrzycka
期刊名称：MediAzioni : Rivista Online di Studi Interdisciplinari su Lingue e Culture
电子版ISSN：1974-4382
出版年度：2014
期号：16
出版社：Università di Bologna sede di Forlì
摘要：In this essay I explore a few aspects of the Blooms’ marital dynamics by focusingon marital memory that allows Bloom-the-cuckold not to take such steps againstMolly as divorce - at least not yet. Joyce’s use of memory has been considered innumerous critical studies2; my discussion of marital memory joins those studies asit also revisits, in Part 2, some narratological implications of how proleptic andanaleptic textual memory underwrites Molly and Leopold Bloom’s memories ofeach other and their shared marital memory. Ontologically and epistemologically,Molly as character and “Penelope” as a chapter stand as grand correctives to theword/world presented in the preceding seventeen chapters of Ulysses: “theindispensable countersign,” wrote Joyce to Budgen (Letters I 160). Vast criticalcommentary on Molly published within the past few decades goes a long way torevise-reread-rewrite her character as a multifaceted, sharp and funny half of theBloom couple, qualities traditionally and more readily assigned to her spouse. Thereadings of Molly’s character as an interpellated colonial subject, explored thenotions of cultural identity, class positioning, sexuality, consumption, and body politics3. What and how she remembers – and the language of her memories – cast her as a particularly complex figure that marks the cross-section between subjectivity, performativity, and the public, as a subject in the metanarrative of state and church further demarcated by her marital status and, eventually, by her new status as an adulteress