Discourse analysis in Ulysses and The Sound and the Fury

• Pages: 51-65

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Vol. 10 No. 1

March, 2024

Academic Journal of Business, Administration

Law and Social Sciences

E-ISSN 2410-8693

ISSN 2410-3918

Discourse analysis in Ulysses and The Sound and the Fury

Dr. Dalila Karakaҫi

University of Shkoder “Luigj Gurakuqi”, Albania

DOI: hps://doi.org/10.2478/ajbals-2024-0006

Abstract

The literary style of modernist authors like James Joyce (1882-1941) and William Faulkner

(1897-1962) is deeply experimental. Their complexity is intertwined with the desire to retell

local, national stories as seen through the eyes of losers from which small literary cosmoses

are the desires result to re-adapt domestic spaces. This research does not leave a path for the

use of language as a transparent means of expression, but at the same time makes it impossible

to express ction through more linear and elaborative methods, leaving the direct elaboration

subordinate, shown from the viewpoint of the marginalized, the oppressed. Their speaking

variety is conveyed through repetitions, xations, alienations, and disturbing endings. The

two authors create neologisms that signal dissatisfaction with the limitations of conventional

language. Joyce includes Hiberno-English in Ulysses (1920) as a means of cacophonous

addition to the voices and styles, just as Faulkner includes the African American speech of

the American South. They operate on the dierences of their traditions. Joyce aacks the use

of syntax, being more interested in the order of words within the sentence, the same concern

with syntactic structure that we also see in Faulkner.

Keywords: Discourse, language, experiment, Ulysses, The Sound and the Fury, modernism.

1. Introduction

Fadiman (1999) says that Faulkner, as a technician in the writing style, was undoubt-

edly inuenced by Joyce. Joyce’s inuence not only on his contemporaries, but also

on subsequent generations is immeasurable. Promoter of the development of new

techniques not only in the eld of literature, but thanks to him lm, video, television

etc., took the form of modern genres due to the inclusion of word fragments, images,

dierent narrative perspectives, parody, and parts with imitations. The inclusion in

literature of small and ordinary details from everyday life created a new breath, as it

opposes the traditional perceptions of subjects and literary objects. Economic, politi-

cal, social, cultural changes accompanying the end of the 19th century left their mark

Research Article

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