D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce and the Impracticability of Home
In this paper I intend to discuss the concept of home and homelessness from an anthropological perspective. I will first analyze this concept in the short story “A Little Cloud” from Dubliners by James Joyce. In this story, the house/home becomes a prison which is almost impossible to escape from, u...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre
2024-10-01
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| Series: | Études Lawrenciennes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence/3927 |
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| Summary: | In this paper I intend to discuss the concept of home and homelessness from an anthropological perspective. I will first analyze this concept in the short story “A Little Cloud” from Dubliners by James Joyce. In this story, the house/home becomes a prison which is almost impossible to escape from, undermining any dream. In the second part of my paper, I will compare this prison to the necessary, but problematic homelessness in Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence. |
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| ISSN: | 0994-5490 2272-4001 |