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Perfume of Texts, Subversive Embraces : A personal retrospect involving "formalist- readings of Ulysses

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Bašić, Sonja. (2005). Perfume of Texts, Subversive Embraces : A personal retrospect involving "formalist- readings of Ulysses. Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia, 50. pp. 133-144. ISSN 0039-3339

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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.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: James Joyce; Ulysses; modernism; postmodernism; formalism; paperspace; juxtaposition of stylistic and narrative registers
Subjects: English language and literature
Departments: Department of English Language and Literature
Date Deposited: 15 Jan 2008
Last Modified: 10 May 2014 08:46
URI: http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/522

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