ࡱ> +-*] bjbjzpzp 4 b b22  j$b8:::8M:j:&Fc00Z@O488 ::::2B t: Name: Dr. Maureen OConnor Affiliation: Mary Immaculate College Paper Title: Inhuman Voices Wake Us: Animals and the Mythical Method in Irish New Woman Writing In his 1923 essay, Ulysses, Order, and Myth, TS Eliot commended James Joyces use of myth, identified the Irish writer as pursuing a method which others must pursue after him. The mythical method, Eliot goes on to say, had been already adumbrated by WB Yeats, the first contemporary to be conscious of the need for this narrative mode. It is significant that two Irish writers share a tendency not only to manipulate, in Eliots words, but to assume a continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity. Maud Ellmanns analysis of Joyces deployment of mythical figures from Ulysses, observes that ɫƵrs monsters are liminal figures, neither human nor inhuman, which undermine the boundary between these categories. In Joyce, Ellmann argues, this boundary is undermined by animals, whose constant incursions into hearth and mind compromise the integrity of homo sapiens. Ellmann reveals the ant-imperialist implications of the animal in Joyce, asserting that England is the Circe which turns the Irish into swine. The history of the Irish as animalized in colonial discourse complicates the use of myth and animal imagery in Irish writing. Human superiority is exposed as a delusion based the repression of the animal, Ellmann contends, and the act of writing animalizes its creator. Figuration itself is implicated in and potentially undermined by the animal, what John Berger calls the first metaphor. Women share a history similar to Irelands of beastialization as justification for violent appropriation and oppression. This paper will argue that Irish New Woman writers, such as Somerville and Ross, George Egerton, and Emily Lawless, anticipate the ways in which later Irish writers call upon the animal to intervene in the epistemological and mimetic crises which mark Irelands relationship to modernity.   (@LMNi o  % ŵŵŵŵŦh=jhzCJOJQJaJh=jhkG6CJOJQJaJh=jhkGCJOJQJaJh=jCJOJQJaJh=jh=jCJOJQJaJh=jh=j5CJOJQJaJ@N $da$gd=j dgd=j21h:pz. A!"#$%  s666666666vvvvvvvvv666666>6666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666hH6666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666662&6FVfv2(&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv8XV~ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ OJPJQJ_HmH nH sH tH J`J zNormal dCJ_HaJmH sH tH DA D Default Paragraph FontRiR 0 Table Normal4 l4a (k ( 0No List PK![Content_Types].xmlN0EH-J@%ǎǢ|ș$زULTB l,3;rØJB+$G]7O٭Vc:E3v@P~Ds |w<  8@0(  B S  ?MmMmMmMmMmMmeell9*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttagsplaceB*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttagscountry-region $+(/rkG]\=jz g@@UnknownG*Ax Times New Roman5Symbol3. *Cx Arial9Garamond7.@CalibriACambria Math"qhKg'Kg',, hh243qHP)$P]\0!xx maureen.oconnor Linda.MoloneyOh+'0x  4 @ LX`hpmaureen.oconnorNormalLinda.Moloney2Microsoft Office Word@F#@ @ ,՜.+,0 hp|  MIC  Title  !#$%&'(),Root Entry FPI.1Table WordDocumentSummaryInformation(DocumentSummaryInformation8"CompObjr  F Microsoft Word 97-2003 Document MSWordDocWord.Document.89q