Original scientific paper
Perfume of Texts, Subversive Embraces A personal retrospect involving “formalist” readings of Ulysses
Sonja Bašić
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In this talk presented at the Bloomsday 100 International Joyce symposium in Dublin
in June 2004, Sonja Bašić offered a personal retrospect of her involvement in Joyce
studies. While fully aware of the need to broaden the field of Joycean theory and
criticism, she advocates the use of a formalist approach resting on the pioneering
work of the Russian formalists but expanding into kindred fields such as narratology
(Genette, Cohn, Barthes), reader-oriented criticism (Iser), etc. She argues that Joyce’s
greatest innovation was his sudden and frame-breaking juxtaposition of stylistic
and narrative registers informed by a supreme awareness of the forms of language.
This is why, she concludes,—being the most deliberately formalist of the modernist
writers—Joyce will always need the services of formalist critics.
Keywords
James Joyce; Ulysses; modernism; postmodernism; formalism; paperspace; juxtaposition of stylistic and narrative registers
Hrčak ID:
17392
URI
Publication date:
8.2.2006.
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