Abstract:This essay examines the representation of odor in Joyce’s fiction and epistolary writing. The significance of (mal)odor in Joyce’s writing has attracted extensive critical commentary. I argue, however, that the interrelationship between Joyce’s visual impairment and his alleged olfactory paraphilia urges closer consideration. By situating Joyce in the context of other smell savants such as Helen Keller and Le Pétomane, this study offers a fresh reading of Joyce’s scatological correspondence of 1909 and his representation of blindness in Ulysses. The linkage of farts and cecity offers a means of exploring Joyce’s conception of individual identity. This reframing of Joyce’s depiction of olfaction, as informed by sensory augmentation, enables a linkage between the sensorium as a cooperative/dysfunctional system of disparate sense modalities and the representative capabilities of language as a system constructed of discrete lexical items. A central feature of Joyce’s writing on odor is his reliance upon analogy and similitude to evoke a powerful, yet inarticulable, sensory experience. Joyce’s fiction strives fully to encode the affective impact of the foul and the fragrant, yet his letters enact the futility of seeking to make language odorous, to be the object it represents.

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Flatus的Afflatus：詹姆斯乔伊斯和气味的写作

摘要：本文考察了乔伊斯小说和书信写作中气味的表现。乔伊斯作品中（恶）气味的重要性引起了广泛的批评。然而，我认为乔伊斯的视力障碍和他所谓的嗅觉异常之间的相互关系需要更仔细地考虑。通过将乔伊斯置于其他嗅觉专家（如海伦凯勒和勒佩托马内）的背景下，这项研究提供了对乔伊斯 1909 年粪便学通信以及他在尤利西斯中对失明的表现的全新解读。放屁和 cecity 的联系提供了一种探索乔伊斯个人身份概念的方法。通过感官增强，乔伊斯对嗅觉的描述的这种重构，使作为不同感觉模式的合作/功能失调系统的感觉与作为由离散词汇项构建的系统的语言的代表性能力之间建立联系。乔伊斯关于气味的写作的一个核心特点是他依赖类比和相似来唤起一种强大但难以表达的感官体验。乔伊斯的小说全力刻画恶臭和芬芳的情感影响，但他的书信却试图让语言变得有味道，成为它所代表的对象，这是徒劳的。