英文摘要 |
The present article takes Joyce’s literary experiment in “Cyclops” asan arrangement deployed through the narrative by the Nameless One thatjuxtaposes with the rhetorical excess of interpolated digressions. Rather thanfocusing on what is being parodied and mocked in the narrative clashes asprevious Joyce criticism has done, this article examines how the critiquethrough parodies is carried out and attempts to identify the libidinal mechanismin the narrative experiment. Drawing on Lacan, I argue that Joyceconducts a literary traversal of fantasy, a working through of symptomaticnationalism through such an experimental, narrative juxtaposition. Joyce’snarrative experiment is triple-layered: (1) realistic representation, (2) excessivenarrative interpolations that threaten/destabilise realistic representation, and(3) the implosion of rhetorical excess as it runs out of control. I read thistriple-layered narrative manoeuvre in terms of Lacan’s theory of the lookand the gaze, of fantasy and the traversal of fantasy. This psychoanalyticinterpretation of “fantasmatic” working yields an alternative reading of“Cyclops” and identifies the ethico-political significance of Joyce’s aestheticenterprise. |