ABSTRACT
My dissertation, “The Usual: Pub Phenomenology in the Works of James Joyce,”
attempts to wrest the pub from critical dismissal as a token symbol of paternalistic Irish
drunkenness and return it to the center of Joyce’s work as the site for his development of a
philosophy of being. Read this way, the pub illustrates ways humans come to understand
their place in the world through objects, practices, and later, as part of a public entity. The
pub also tells the story of modernism’s impact on Irish society. Few spaces so deftly render
the complexities of the modern Irish position: at the edge of the mechanizing forces of
modernity and at odds with the vexing forces of British imperialism.
Across five chapters and a conclusion, I read scenes of pub life in Joyce’s major
works as the most illuminating indications of his phenomenological inquiry into the
everyday. In Dubliners, Joyce outlines a trajectory for human development that passes
through “childhood, adolescence, mature life, and public life.” This trajectory parallels the
progress of a phenomenological inquiry into being. We begin with those things immediately
available to us in childhood. We come to know the world through the objects surrounding
us. Our encounters with doors, drawers, counters, and glasses reveal a host of practices that
further embroider and define our experience of the world. This assemblage refigures
humanity as a nexus of things and practices situated in space.
For Irish masculinity in the early twentieth century, the public house often served as
a central space for this connection. The pub’s public nature illustrates a kind of endpoint in
the phenomenological inquiry just as Joyce ends his corpus with a book deeply absorbed in
the overlapping soundscapes of a crowded public house. Investigating the how of our
existence brings us face to face with other people. Being for Joyce, as it was for Martin
Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Jürgen Habermas, arises from the speech acts and human
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contact afforded by publicness. In Joyce’s writing, there is no being that is not also a being
among other people. I argue that the public house belongs to that set of unique spaces
Michel Foucault terms “heterotopias.” They are spaces that buck the architectural, political,
or spatial norms of the time and in so doing articulate a cultural engagement with being. The
dissertation maps outs a Heideggerian account of “equipment” and conjoins it with the
inventive sociological theory of Michel de Certeau, the spatial poetics of Gaston Bachelard,
and the publics theory of Michael Warner. I close the dissertation with a brief look at the
pub’s legacy in poems by Paul Durcan and Macdara Woods and the novel The Ginger Man
by J.P. Donleavy. These works continue Joyce’s exploration of the pub as a space of memory
and futurity, as the presence of expatriates and women in the public house lend new glosses
to the practice of nostalgia and rounds respectively.
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THE USUAL: PUB PHENOMENOLOGY IN THE WORKS OF JAMES JOYCE
by
Thomas M. Keegan
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the Doctor of
Philosophy degree in English
in the Graduate College of
The University of Iowa
May 2010
Thesis Supervisor: Professor Cheryl Herr
Copyright by
THOMAS M. KEEGAN
2010
All Rights Reserved
Graduate College
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL
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PH.D. THESIS
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This is to certify that the Ph.D. thesis of
Thomas M. Keegan
has been approved by the Examining Committee
for the thesis requirement for the Doctor of Philosophy
degree in English at the May 2010 graduation.
Thesis Committee: ___________________________________
Cheryl Herr, Thesis Supervisor
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Mary Lou Emery
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John D. Peters
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Harilaos Stecopoulos
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Garrett Stewart
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To my mother, Joyce
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For you may be as practical as is predicable
but you must have the proper sort of accident
to meet that kind of a being with a difference.
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (269.13-15)
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This dissertation would not have been possible without the generous and consistent
support of the University of Iowa, its faculty, my friends, and family. I owe an immense debt
of gratitude to my dissertation committee members for their guidance, support, joviality, and
patience. In particular, I must thank Cheryl Herr who has done more for my thinking about
Joyce than any other writer, scholar, critic, or friend. Whatever insights I convey in this work
will bear the marks of her welcome and studied influence. In addition, my work was at
various times facilitated by research conducted at Boston College’s John J. Burns Library,
Emory University’s Manuscript Archive and Rare Book Library, and the National Library of
Ireland in addition to Iowa’s own archives. My research was made possible by a Crossing
Borders fellowship and a T. Anne Cleary research fellowship from the University of Iowa
Graduate College, as well as the UI English department’s Frederick F. Seely fellowship. I
must also thank the following institutions and people for shaping my engagement with
pubspace and practice over the course of writing the dissertation: Jeff Doty, Mark Bresnan,
Jason England, Josh Doster, Jeff Erickson, Chris Goodman, Ryan Brunette, Jerry Schimdt,
Phil Lemke, Dave’s Foxhead Tavern, George’s Buffet, Joe’s Place, The Dublin
Underground, The Deadwood, Le Tigre Lounge, Vincent’s, Mulligan’s, O’Neill’s in Pearse
Street, The Modern Green Bar, and Mahaffey’s.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES vi
LIST OF FIGURES vii
CHAPTER
I. INTRODUCTION/JAMES JOYCE AND THE PUB 1
The terms of (Heideggerian) phenomenology 12
Equipment 14
Practice and Space 18
Publicness 33
Temporality 38
II. PUB EQUIPMENT/DUBLINERS 50
Corners 53
The Public House 58
Doorways 65
Drinking 83
Mobile Pubs 97
III. PUB UNDERSTANDING/STEPHEN HERO AND A PORTRAIT
OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN 106
Death and Drink Orders 108
The Epiphany’s Association with the Pub 118
Sex and Reverie 121
Roads to the Public House 130
IV. PUB FLOWS/ULYSSES 141
Pubtime 143
Language of Flow 151
Afterhours 161
V. BEING PUBLICITLY/FINNEGANS WAKE 166
Joy(ce) in the Pub 170
Eyegonblack/Augenblick 188
Public Technologies 191
Conclusion 193
VI. PUBS POST-JOYCE 197
BIBLIOGRAPHY 206
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LIST OF TABLES
TABLE
1. Hubert Dreyfus’ breakdown of Part I of Being and Time and the place of
Joyce’s work within this framework. 44

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