History, All That

Having scanned the Dublin of 1904, Joyce embarks on a particular kind of treatment of English and Anglo-Irish discourses that is to a large extent responsible for producing the famous ‘styles’ of Ulysses. To continue with my theme from the previous chapter: the practices in question are retributive, but with many complications. The beginnings of these practices have been evident earlier in the novel, above all, in ‘Scylla and Charybdis’, a chapter which allows us to see Joyce’s project in the later part of the novel emerging out of Stephen. Now, however, Joyce separates his stratagems decisively from the melancholy of the young man, giving them an independent life. Like Bloom, they follow on logically from Stephen, but also challenge and transform much that is still rigid in Stephen’s thought.

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