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"Amor matris": mother and self in the telemachiad episode of Ulysses. (James Joyce's novel 'Ulysses')

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From: Twentieth Century Literature
Date: 19930922
Author:Hill, Marylu

The Telemachiad episode in 'Ulysses' portrays a man's conflict between the need for a mother and the wish to assert his patriarchal authority by denying the mother a separate identity. Throughout the novel, the woman is projected as subservient to man and without a voice or independent existence of her own. The need for a mother's love conflicts with the need to dominate over her, seeing her as a threat to masculine power. This conflict extends throughout the novel, which ends with the woman establishing her separate identity.

In the Telemachiad episodes of James Joyce's Ulysses we first ...

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