Thomas Rice says that "[t]he history of Anglo-American literary theory in our century roughly parallels the developments in the sciences"(109). Similarly placing Joyce`s works in the context of complex multiple realities of history, culture and politics, Peter Mackey also interprets Joycean nonlinear world in terms of emerging field of chaos theory where "an underlying order is either imbedded within or emerges inside complex systems"(41). Similar to the edge of chaos where small perturbations unpredictably alter complex systems, Joycean heroes in early novels show sensitivities to initial conditions symbolized as "a small cloud" which predicts the revitalizing rain (epiphany) upon the paralyzed small city of Dublin. By harmonizing the part with the wholeness, Joycean heroes get the radiance through which some fractal patterns of order are found in an intricately complex system represented as quadrature. More importantly, what makes Stephen as a Joycean hero a mythic trueman figure such as Thoth or Hermes is done by "recognizing the interdependence of the symbolic and the real, the spiritual and the carnal, and the self and the other"(Rice 49). This interdependence, if examined more hermeneutically, is more telling than this because by the Joyce`s careful grand design of mythopoeisis Molly, Bloom and Stephen, the three main characters of Ulysses, are embodying respectively Gaia, Eros and Chaos. By using parallax of this trinity, Joyce from the beginning stage of his writing aimed at the Orphic trinity by which the long-forgotten lyre or hermeneutical device of the symbolic order can be detected again to the readers who are sensible enough to the stochaistically deterministic initial conditions of chaos interacting with ecocentric body and warm-hearted mind. |