Sakr, Rita
(2010)
'Broken Pillars': The Counter-Monumental Texture of Ulysses.
Dublin James Joyce Journal, 3.
pp. 120-143.
ISSN 2009-1850
Abstract
... Using an interdisciplinary theoretical-literary approach, this essay offers a
fresh perspective on Joyce’s representations of monuments: what I refer to as
Joyce against monuments. My aim is to explore the ways in which Joyce’s
texts expand, qualify, and supplement the historical, cultural geographical,
and theoretical material in relation to this counter-monumental dynamic. This essay is one example of this approach, though here I am limiting the study to
only certain monuments, in particular Nelson’s Pillar, as it is represented in
Ulysses In complementary ways this essay is both a revisioning of Henri Lefebvre’s
thoughts on monuments through Ulysses and a reconsideration of
monumental space in Ulysses along and against Lefebvre. Furthermore, it
engages with a theoretical and critical matrix comprising the ideas and
perspectives of Maurice Blanchot, Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, Jean-
Luc Nancy, Pierre Nora, W.J.T. Mitchell, James E. Young, and historical and
cultural geographers.3 The starting point has to be a rather long, but extremely
useful quotation from Lefebvre’s The Production of Space...
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