Original scientific paper
Free Indirect Joyce: Authorial, Figural, Parodic? (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
Sonja Bašić
Abstract
In Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man the technique of free indirect style comprises an entire sliding scale, a speech transmission continuum, ranging from imitating (siniulating) voices to
imitating (copying) texts, which represent the niovement from psychological presentation to parody. Thus, although much of the charm of this nove] resides in the play of free indirect style and of subtle intertwinements of the authorial and figura! idiom, this text also functions as Joyce*s warning against literal reading. A Portrait is not just a novel about an author learning to write; it is also a nove] learning to write itself. Its free indirect discourse goes beyond thejuxtaposition of individual idiolects, entering broader stylistic areas which disdain figural mimeticísm and come close to the fictional norms of Ulysses.
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121444
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Publication date:
5.12.1991.
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