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The Journey

January 2006

DOI:10.1057/9781403983275_10

In book: Reading Irish-American Fiction (pp.173-181)

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Whether it be Æneas’s or Odysseus’s or Gulliver’s, Stephen Dedalus’s and Leopold Bloom’s around Dublin or Alice’s through the looking glass, the journey is one of the most common motifs in literature. Some of life’s journeys may be meaningless, but seldom is this true of the journeys in literature. Fictional journeys involve the mind and spirit as well as the body; the character who makes the journey will often undergo some transformation of which the spatial motion is a metaphor. When a character comes full circle and returns to the place of origin, therefore making two journeys, one away, one back again, the result is often a better, or at least different, understanding of both places, and of him or herself.

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