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  1. Stan, C, The lures of polyphony: Socrates, joyce, schoenberg, in Composing Modernist Connections in China and Europe (January, 2018), pp. 72-96 [doi] .
    (last updated on 2024/03/28)

    Abstract:
    Reading the scene from the “Sirens” episode, Jean-Michel Rabate suggests that just as the sound produced by the seashell is an imaginary one, reproduced in an echo-chamber but existing without actual presence, the song of the sirens is a silent one. While one can agree with Rabate’s tropological analysis, it is difficult to forget that in “Sirens,” narrative unfolds under the auspices of music, and that Joyce gambles a lot on the latter’s capacity to catalyze affect. The seashell, for instance, offers an intriguing entry point into the episode, for it generously lends itself to interpretation as a symbol of seduction. The sirens’ song in Homer’s epic has become more than just an alluring melody in Joyce’s novel: It is now a seduction game involving desires stirred by mythical women, subtly mediated by an ideology-social, capitalist, religious-which impregnates and thus perverts the old myths.