Looking at Animals without Seeing Them
Havelock Ellis in the “Circe” Episode of Ulysses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20248204 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronan Crowley (0000-0002-2016-5270, University of Antwerp, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 73 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h6030073 |
| OpenAlex | W2752445373 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Taking wing from Joyce’s reading of Havelock Ellis’s Studies in the Psychology of Sex, in which the Irish writer found an account of cross-species sexual contact, this essay explores Leopold Bloom’s animal metamorphosis in the “Circe” episode of Ulysses. It argues that this encounter with the nonhuman animal is subordinated to the cause of working through barriers of human difference. In the process, the animal that enables this reconciliation disappears. Unable to represent animal interiority, “Circe” settles for merely probing their interiors
Art · Irish · Linguistics · Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Philosophy · Samuel Beckett and Modernism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |