 Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 2291922Full view - About this book
 | Freeman - American literature - 1924 - 416 pages
...his palm against his brow . . . pain that was not yet the pain of love fretted his heart. Silently as in a dream she had come to him after her death, her...mute, reproachful ... a faint odour of wetted ashes. Across his threadbare cuff-edge he saw the sea, hailed as a great sweet mother by the well-fed voice... | |
 | Herbert Sherman Gorman - Ireland - 1924 - 262 pages
...to be free of a God and a creed which no longer extracts any allegiance from him remains unshaken. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted hody within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odor of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had... | |
 | David Hayman - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 190 pages
...importantly to a character's view of self and world as, for example, in Stephen's dream vision of his mother: "Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her...mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes" (5). There is no question that Joyce made frequent and significant use of such vivid instants, and... | |
 | Derek Attridge, Daniel Ferrer - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 180 pages
...appearance can never be more than a re-appearance. Very early in the novel, we saw Stephen remembering: 'Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her...mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes' ( 1 1/5). And later, the same words, with minor variations, are repeated: In a dream, silently, she... | |
 | Marguerite Harkness - Literary Collections - 1984 - 230 pages
...and his mother even clearer or muddier: Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her...mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes. Across the threadbare cuffedge he saw the sea hailed as a great mother by the wellfed voice beside... | |
 | Margery Sabin - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 321 pages
..."cough up" on demand from his companion: "Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her...mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes" (1.102-05 / 5). As in A Portrait of the Artist the very elegance of the style devised for Stephen's... | |
 | Hugh Kenner - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 404 pages
...room. It's a beastly thing and nothing else.") The Ghost beheld by Stephen is that of his mother, " her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood ". Having planted the correspondence firmly in the first episode, Joyce drops its detailed development... | |
 | Janet Egleson Dunleavy, Melvin J. Friedman, Michael Patrick Gillespie - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 254 pages
...the transition from life to death plays itself out as Stephen recalls his dead mother, conjured up by "her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes...mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes" (Te 103-5). This dream vision, first returning to him when Mulligan accuses him of failing to kneel... | |
 | Alan Warren Friedman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 360 pages
...father whose death and funeral he had missed, Stephen is visited by a guiltinducing parental ghost: "Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her...an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had been upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes" (5; also 9, 23, 473-5). Stephen fears... | |
 | Susan Rubin Suleiman - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 460 pages
...fraying edge of his shiny black coatsleeve. Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her...mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes. Across the threadbare cuffedge he saw the sea hailed as a great sweet mother by the wellfed voice beside... | |
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