by James Joyce Language and style organic adaptation Precision Topographical and chronological minuteness Portrait technique with its insistence on ugliness or at any rate incongruous and ludicrous elements ID: 491057
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The Dubliners
by James Joyce
Language and style; organic adaptationSlide2
Precision
Topographical and chronological minuteness
Portrait technique with its insistence on ugliness or, at any rate, incongruous and ludicrous elements
Lexical accuracy and variety recur in the exploration of certain fields, that of food in particular (to vent his disgust with luxury and materialism, like Shakespeare)
Capacity to transcribe the variations of speech according to social standing and professionSlide3
Adaptation
A style of scrupulous meanness
: passivity, narrowness, avarice
Joyce’s
mimetism
: the systemic use of adverbs to present Gabriel (ex.
nervously, reassuringly, shortly, awkwardly
, etc.)
The systematic use of the
–
ing
form for the spinster-aunts (ex.
gossiping, laughing, fussing
)Slide4
Perception
Visual
Through insistence on darkness rather than light (most scenes are set at night, evening or sunset
)
Intellectual
Through character’s predilection
for
clichés, proverbs, set phrases, small talk, conversations on weather
Vocabulary that stresses the states of immobility, impotence, materialism, decadence.