Charting Elsewhereness: Erratic Interlocations
In: Joyce's "Wandering Rocks"
Author:
Fritz Senn
Fritz Senn
Zürich James Joyce Foundation
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Abstract
This essay offers a detailed analysis of what it calls the ‘interlocations’ of “Wandering Rocks”. These are identified as the trademark stylistic feature of the episode and as having a simultaneously disorienting and coordinating effect. The essay uses a discussion of the reader’s difficulty in deciding what is or is not an interlocation to show how “Wandering Rocks” insinuates a continual sense of ‘elsewhereness’. This awareness is then reinforced and developed throughout the remainder of Ulysses.