This essay examines the representation of ageing in Ulysses, arguing that old age is encoded through a deeply gendered symbolic framework. While elderly women are associated with bodily decay, sterility, and abjection, elderly men are linked to cultural authority, finance, and symbolic continuity. Through this asymmetry, James Joyce exposes ageing as a biological inevitability, a social construct, and a powerful cultural signifier in early twentieth-century Ireland.
And from time to time I lie back and listen to my hair growing white Aging and old age in James Joyce's Ulysses
Laura Pelaschiar
2025-01-01
Abstract
This essay examines the representation of ageing in Ulysses, arguing that old age is encoded through a deeply gendered symbolic framework. While elderly women are associated with bodily decay, sterility, and abjection, elderly men are linked to cultural authority, finance, and symbolic continuity. Through this asymmetry, James Joyce exposes ageing as a biological inevitability, a social construct, and a powerful cultural signifier in early twentieth-century Ireland.File in questo prodotto:
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