Resumen de The "Cyclops" Episode and Fractured Irish Identity
This essay takes up Joyce's subversion of the concept of a unified Irish identity. It focuses on the "Cyclops" episode of Ulysses to develop the idea that in Joyce's novel Irishness has become an empty concept. Instead, isolation and hostility emerge as the dominant cultural features. Examples concentrate on the episode's unnamed narrator, but they also touch on the behavior of all of the others in Barney Kiernan's pub to show the pervasiveness of cultural alienation.
