Critical Analysis on Modernist and Deconstructive Element in Ulysses.docVIP

Critical Analysis on Modernist and Deconstructive Element in Ulysses 　　1.Introdution 　　Ulysses， receiving no less enthusiastic research by scholars than Shakespeare’s masterworks nowadays， was written with Homer’s Odysseus as the contextual parallel. James Joyce named the novel as Ulysses， the Roman name for Odysseus. And the 18 episodes are titled with the characters’ names in Odysseus to allude to the connection with the ancient legendary work. Ulysses can be regarded as the modern version of Odysseus. 　　Whereas it is different in that Ulysses has condensed years of Odysseus’ fantastic decade-long explorations home from the war into normal people’s more psychological everyday adventures in a common day in Dublin beginning on the morning of Thursday 16th June 1904. Numerous inner monologues serve as a linkage to associate the external world of the speaker with the psychologically internal world. Consequently， the same experience which happened in the past has a different new text when it reappears in the character’s mind. 　　Joyces technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue； he used a complex network of symbolic parallels drawn from the mythology， history， and literature. Evidently it is a novel in lack of logic and coherence. But the seemingly insignificant illogical details construct James Joyce’s way of telling the truth which is hidden inside the details. Ulysses is a naturalistic work. James Joyce tries to represent the natural psychological state of characters using the stream of consciousness writing technique. 　　Everyone is making a narrative by choosing and exaggerating the chosen details to make his version of narration complete. Perhaps in James Joyce’s perspective， compiling the details together with no coherence and completeness in narratives and no obvious attitude and logic is just the best way of exposing the truth. Everyone can make a personal interpretation from his fragmentary and broken bits