Time, Space and The City in “Wandering Rocks”
In: Joyce's "Wandering Rocks"
Author:
Richard Brown
Richard Brown
University of Leeds
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Abstract
While the city has always been a staple subject in criticism of Ulysses, the recent development in postmodernist cultural criticism of new ways of articulating the modern experience of the city allows also for a new articulation of the experience of reading “Wandering Rocks”. Indeed, as this essay shows, in “Wandering Rocks” preeminently, an episode as multifarious as the city itself, the reading of the city as a kind of text and the reading of the text as a kind of city come together to the extent that, in some senses, the urban and the textual may be seen to merge into one.