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This article examines James Joyce’s “A Painful Case” through Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and explores how modernist fiction reconfigures the structure and sensibility of ancient tragedy. By examining what moves beyond existing ethical and social readings, and focusing on the work’s formal and aesthetic construction, Nietzsche’s concepts of the Apollonian, the Dionysian, and the Chorus are employed as key interpretive tools. Mr. Duffy embodies Apollonian qualities through order and restraint, while Mrs. Sinico represents the Dionysian through emotional openness and the dissolution of boundaries. Their relationship briefly unites these two artistic impulses but ultimately ends in incomplete reconciliation and eventual rupture. The newspaper report, the couples in the park, and the image and the sound of the freight train in the latter part of the narrative serve as modern transformations of the ancient tragic chorus, mediating the event on a social and collective level. As such, “A Painful Case” can be interpreted as a link between Joyce’s formal experimentation and Nietzsche’s concept of classical aesthetics, reopening the dialogue between classical and modern literature.

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Ⅰ. 들어가는 말
Ⅱ. 조이스와 니체, 그리고 『비극의 탄생』
A. 조이스와 니체
B. 조이스, 니체, 그리고 그리스 드라마
Ⅲ. ｢가슴 아픈 사건｣과 두 개의 힘
A. ‘개별화’를 추구하는 더피의 아이러니
B. 에밀리 시니코의 열정의 비극
Ⅳ. 두 힘의 통합과 새 비극의 탄생
Ⅴ. 나가는 말
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• 김철수 [ Cheol-soo Kim | 조선대학교 부교수 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820