Identity Crisis at the Party: Joyce’s “The Dead” and Woolf’s “The New Dress”

Margarita Estévez-Saá

doi:10.18172/jes.5707

Autores/as

Margarita Estévez-Saá Universidade de Santiago de Compostela https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0535-8859

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.5707

Palabras clave:

James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, “Los Muertos”, “El vestido nuevo”, la fiesta, crisis

Resumen

El trabajo ofrece un análisis comparativo del relato de James Joyce “Los muertos” y el de Virginia Woolf “El vestido nuevo”, reflexionando sobre los posibles motivos que explicarían la inexistencia de comparaciones críticas previas de dos textos escritos por dos autores cuya obra ha sido ampliamente estudiada y que han sido frecuentemente relacionados por la crítica. Tomando en consideración el motivo y contexto recurrente de la fiesta en la literatura modernista, el estudio se centra en las crisis identitarias que experimentan los protagonistas de ambos relatos. Y teniendo en cuenta las reflexiones de Anthony Elliott sobre los agentes que participan en la construcción del ser, a la par que el concepto Joyceano de “epifanía” y el “momento del ser” al que se refirió Virginia Woolf, se analizan las concomitancias que se detectan en dos relatos que tratan las crisis identitarias que sufren sus respectivos protagonistas, presentan una estructura análoga, y comparten el uso de un simbolismo similar.

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