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本論文探討喬伊斯《尤里西斯》中的母性主題，並著重由愛爾蘭殖民歷史、政治與文化等層面，分析喬氏呈現之父權文化的病癥。喬氏小說凸顯在父權與母權的衝突下，個人成長過程所承受的壓抑與制約。母愛與母性象徵是《尤里西斯》的敘述主題，亦與喬氏之文化、政治想像，及藝術原創力密不可分。喬氏以茉莉布魯姆為母性象徵，呈現對其母國文化之願景：以開放、多元的創造力，取代舊殖民地文化之麻痺與卑屈。本論文以法國女性主義為理論基礎，並結合愛爾來研究與後殖民論述，由語言、書寫、與心理分析三層面作本文分析，並詮釋喬氏以現代主義之實驗精神，所創新的陰性書寫文體。

This dissertation focuses on the narrative of maternity in Ulysses, and its relationship to Joyce''s cultural critique of masculinity as a "symptom" in the Irish society. My research builds on the gender issues in the context of Ireland''s colonial history, culture and politics. From this perspective, "Amor matris" underlines the narrative key of Ulysses, by which Joyce excavates the subtext of the repressed masculinity under the patriarchal law. Along with the repressed masculinity, the repressed mother/motherland powerfully sheds light on Joyce''s cultural and political imagination. Joyce wishes to envision Ireland as an authentic urban world of hybrid cultures, not a land embedded in folk tradition. Thus, the thematic intertextuality of the mater texts with artistic creation substantially highlights Joyce''s cultural imaginary on the role of women.
My study examines the female figures on Bloomsday initiated by the milkwoman and culminated in Molly Bloom. In the light of the French feminist theories on language, psychoanalysis and writing, I analyze Molly Bloom as a cardinal emblem of the maternal alterity, which sustains Ireland to recover from spiritual paralysis. By reading Molliloquy as an exemplary of ecriture feminine, I conclude that Ulysses interrogates the law of gender with revisionary insight illuminated by its maternal narrative.

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abstract
Introduction
Chapter One Amor Matris in the Bed of Death
Chapter Two Mothers on Trial in the Childbed
Chapter Three
Chapter Four The Guardian of the Flesh and the Soul
Chapter Five Molliloquy-the Maternal Body Poetics
Conclusion
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