Book contents
- Small World
- Small World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Permissions
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Swift as Classic
- Chapter 2 Burke in the USA
- Chapter 3 Tone: The Great Nation and the Evil Empire
- Chapter 4 Imperialism and Nationalism
- Chapter 5 Irish National Character 1790–1900
- Chapter 6 Civilians and Barbarians
- Chapter 7 Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea
- Chapter 8 Ulysses: The Exhaustion of Literature and the Literature of Exhaustion
- Chapter 9 Dead Ends: Joyce’s Finest Moments
- Chapter 10 Elizabeth Bowen: Sentenced to Death
- Chapter 11 Elizabeth Bowen: Two Stories in One
- Chapter 12 Mary Lavin: Celibates
- Chapter 13 Emergency Aesthetics
- Chapter 14 Wherever Green is Read
- Chapter 15 The Famous Seamus
- Chapter 16 The End of the World
- Index
Chapter 8 - Ulysses: The Exhaustion of Literature and the Literature of Exhaustion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2021
- Small World
- Small World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Permissions
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Swift as Classic
- Chapter 2 Burke in the USA
- Chapter 3 Tone: The Great Nation and the Evil Empire
- Chapter 4 Imperialism and Nationalism
- Chapter 5 Irish National Character 1790–1900
- Chapter 6 Civilians and Barbarians
- Chapter 7 Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea
- Chapter 8 Ulysses: The Exhaustion of Literature and the Literature of Exhaustion
- Chapter 9 Dead Ends: Joyce’s Finest Moments
- Chapter 10 Elizabeth Bowen: Sentenced to Death
- Chapter 11 Elizabeth Bowen: Two Stories in One
- Chapter 12 Mary Lavin: Celibates
- Chapter 13 Emergency Aesthetics
- Chapter 14 Wherever Green is Read
- Chapter 15 The Famous Seamus
- Chapter 16 The End of the World
- Index
Summary
In The Romantic, the first part of Hermann Broch’s trilogy The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler), Eduard von Bertrand, the man who has escaped from the neurosis of militarist convention so widespread in his society, tells Joachim von Pasenow, on the occasion of the death in a duel of Joachim’s brother, that modes of feeling always suffer from a time lag
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- Small WorldIreland, 1798–2018, pp. 149 - 161Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021