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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Plock, Vike Martina

Titel

Modernism's Feast on Science: Nutrition and Diet in Joyce's Ulysses

Ist Teil von

• Literature and history, 2007-11, Vol.16 (2), p.30-42

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

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Quelle

ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Famously, the episodes of his 1922 novel Ulysses are organised around the organs of the human body while the 'Oxen of the Sun' episode, to which Joyce allocated the art 'medicine', takes place in Dublin's National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street. [...]Joyce's letters are rife with references to his ill-health and to astonishing attempts of self-diagnosis: 'The attack lasted about an hour. [...]in spite of an apparent artistic and creative paradigm shift Ulysses remained indebted to debates in the scientific community and we find, at the core of this novel by one of the most important ambassadors of literary modernism, a surprisingly determined reliance on modern science. Arguably, in Ireland the haunting memories of the Famine made the introduction of a more balanced nutritional regime even more pressing than elsewhere in Europe. [...]the evolving food reforms were embedded in the broader context of latenineteenth- century Irish '"self-help" movements' that 'were largely responsible for an "alternative" Irish modernization process that was informed by a belief in the potential for innovation within traditional cultural forms'.11 In the last decade of the nineteenth century this Irish self-help movement became synonymous with the name Horace Plunkett (1854-1932), the Irish politician and agricultural reformer who founded the Irish Agricultural Organisation (IAOS) in 1894 and a year later launched the Irish Homestead, a journal dedicated to the instruction of Irish farmers in modernised agrarian and agricultural practices. [...]sufficient but economical tissue repair was only achievable by consuming the right kind of protein and foodstuff.