Deconstruction of Nostalgic Reminiscences Through the “The Lass of Aughrim” Irish Ballad in James Joyce’s The Dead

The novelty of the modernist writer, James Joyce, brought fascination to the literature as he reflects on the contemporary human psyche. The Dead is a notable farewell novella of the collection of Dubliners. That conveys the last tempo of the series of Joyce’s short stories. This article attempts to magnify the flickering nature of man and his sensitivity to the spirit of music, and how it revives and tortures simultaneously man’s fiber of being and soul. An analytic look at The Dead in the light of deconstructive approach will illuminate more of human's contradiction in the language-based world. Based on Jacques Derrida’s theory of deconstruction, the novella decodes the binary oppositions throughout the story. Consequently, the locus of tension in the novel is being exposed in a new context. This study thereby attempts to delineate the binary opposition in pairs like music and torture, past and present, living and dead, and finally Intimacy and detachment. Besides, a meditation on how the music feeling can be adjusted to a tormenting tool for humans in recollecting the lost love, and in its worst scenario brings the emotional breakdown amongst the couple in the novella. The result will indicate a sense of reunion with nature through the peace and paralysis that winter brings to the human soul

کلیدواژه ها:

Deconstruction ، Modernist Writer ، James Joyce ، Jacques Derrida ، Dubliners