期刊名称：Miranda. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone / Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world
电子版ISSN：2108-6559
出版年度：2020
期号：21
页码：1-22
DOI：10.4000/miranda.28067
出版社：Université Toulouse 2 - Le Mirail
摘要：The presence of obscenity in Joyce’s writing and the suspicion of pornographic content have given rise to hesitant sentiments in its readers concerning the reactions these materials were meant to excite and the position they should adopt in relation to them. Many readers have doubted the appropriateness of their own response, wondering whether the problematic contents were designed to attract or repulse. This preoccupation, framed by the moral scandal which the publication of Ulysses had caused, had already been at the center of the 1921 trial.
其他摘要：This article concerns the presence of obscene contents in Ulysses and the embarrassment that such material has caused among its readers. It dwells more specifically on the thirteenth episode of the novel, “Nausicaa”. After recapitulating the main arguments put forward by scholars in response to the most unpalatable and morally touchy aspects of the episode, I propose to concentrate on the internal contradictions elicited by the various discourses woven together in it. I argue that the narrative apparatus set up by the author forces one to occupy unstable positions and that this instability is what has led to the different critical receptions of Joyce’s text. By exposing the reader to contradictory imperatives, this narrative apparatus aims at conflating virtue and vice into a single entity.
