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“Circe” in Ulysses is the chapter in which Bloom’s suppressed desire is unleashed and sublimated. More recently, for many critics it is considered as a Joyce’s critique of sexual discrimination and patriarchy in the sense that Bloom’s perversity is the outcome of social biases on sexuality. However, Bloom’s perversity, especially his androgyny not only implies social criticism but also is the essential element in Joyce’s theory of creativity. Since Plato, androgyne imagination has been an important aspect of the Western literary theory of creativity. Therefore, a study on “Circe”, or Bloom’s perversity such as androgyny should be at once the study on Joyce’s theory of creativity through feminine imagery and the study on the changes and consequences in the history of sexuality and femininity. This paper, accordingly, analyzes some aspects of Circe’s images in ancient works, compares them with those of “Circe” in Ulysses, and examines Bloom’s androgyny in its historical context. Circe in the classic works has the same positive aspects such as creativity, rebirth, sublimation and initiation for men rather than negative aspects as a witch. These positive aspects function as an essential condition for Bloom to transform himself to a reformer and an artist and to achieve his humanity. That is, “Circe” in Ulysses at once criticizes existing sexual morality and reveals the positive aspects of femininity as seen in the Circe images since ancient times, which helps to understand the relation between Joyce’s theory of creativity and its indebtedness to the ancient tradition. This paper, through the examples in the classics, examines the historical condition that “Circe” shows when Joyce’s theory of creativity meets Bloom’s androgyny in the historical context.

목차

I. 조이스 창작 미학의 양성성
 II. 고전 속 키르케 묘사에 나타난 여성성
 III. 양성성과 매저키즘
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• 이강훈 [ Lee, Kang-Hoon | 서원대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810