Joycean Transubstantiation (dog'sbody)

Ulysses can be read as transubstantiation: Dog’sbody, Dignam’sbody, Molly’sbody and Stephen’s dearly departed mother’sbody pleuritic with coalman’s lung. The juxtaposition of lifelessness with the immanence of the living, the dead rising, corseting the black Irish Sea. There is a no separation between the dead and the living, but simply an inversion of language, a distance that never recedes into the background (foreground), an opposable unity of language, separation and line; transubstantiation of body and soul (life and death) sung in a tenebrous, lilting Irish brogue.