Conclusion and Supplement: Exploration and Comedy

Abstract

The model of exploration allows us to follow Joyce’s drive toward discovering the unknown, the excluded side of the world, the power of humanity to free itself from authority. The progress I have traced through Joyce’s canon may be said to involve three main aspects: changing one’s volition by assuming new metaphors, opening up multiple meanings in language, and moving to new locations. These psychological, linguistic, and spatial activities are inseparable components of carrying consciousness to new levels, or increasing one’s awareness of otherness. One cannot change one’s mind without changing one’s language and moving at least figuratively to a new place.