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To explore how Joyce's literary techniques interact with Dublin's infrastructure and influence perceptions of the city.

February 9, 2026

'Shunted, Changed': Urban Forms and Infrastructural Modernism in Ulysses

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To explore how Joyce's literary techniques interact with Dublin's infrastructure and influence perceptions of the city.
Analyzed literary forms in Ulysses
Examined the relationship between literature and urban infrastructure
Identified shifts in style and technique throughout the text
Joyce's writing reflects changes in Dublin's infrastructure
Highlighting differences between imagined and material nations
Demonstrates how literary forms can reshape understanding of urban politics

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Abstract: This article considers how James Joyce's shifting literary forms — from the initial style of Ulysses to its more experimental registers — respond to Dublin's infrastructures. Joyce's interplay of literary techniques with infrastructural technologies reframes the material politics of the city, highlighting the differences between a nation imagined through discourse and one mediated materially by means of infrastructure.

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