James Joyce, like other modernist novelists, shows his life-long interest in the form of fiction in and through his works. Each of Joyce's works displays a remarkable organic unity, although it threatens to split asunder because of its episodic and fr...
James Joyce, like other modernist novelists, shows his life-long interest in the form of fiction in and through his works. Each of Joyce's works displays a remarkable organic unity, although it threatens to split asunder because of its episodic and fragmentary qualities.
To create the structural pattern of Ulysses which offers harmony, unity, and dialectical rhythm, Joyce exploits various techniques and artistic strategies. Local repetition is used for thematic intensification and may affect us subliminally. The book's symbols and literary allusions deepen our sense of the incrustation of his text, its meticulously arranged and richly decorated surface. Selection, foregrounding, perspective, juxtaposition, interpolation, and other devices play as great a part in the transparent narrative at which Joyce aimed as they do in any other form of storytelling. In particular, Joyce elaborates the intertextual strategy within Ulysses itself as well as among his other works. The intertextual characteristics of Joyce's novels including Ulysses make possible the attainment of their aesthetical form, individually or as a whole.