Pariah and Parvenu: Reading "Cyclops" Two Ways with Hannah Arendt

• Arnaud Zimmern ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Notre Dame

     University of Notre Dame

     Township of Portage, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: James Joyce quarterly, ISSN 0021-4183, Vol. 58, Nº. 3, 2021, págs. 295-314
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Despite their common turn to Greek heroism as a heuristic for grasping the woes of modern life, and despite their overlapping reflection on the precariousness of Jewish identity, James Joyce and Hannah Arendt have never been thoughtfully studied side-by-side. The comparison offered in this essay shows that Arendt's distinction between the Jew as pariah and as parvenu can illuminate the banter that Barney Kiernan's pub fosters around Leopold Bloom as well as the mute violence he faces as he enters and eventually emerges from the pub transformed or, depending on how we take the final words of "Cyclops," transfigurated.