SVIBOR - Project code: 6-03-207

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Project code: 6-03-207

MODERNIST SUBVERSIONS: JOYCE AND FAULKNER

Main researcher: BAŠIĆ, SONJA (2491)

Assistants

Type of research: basic
Duration from: 06/01/91. to 06/01/95.

Papers on project (total): 6

Institution name: Filozofski fakultet - Humanističke znanosti, Zagreb (130)
Department/Institute: Institute for Literary Studies
Address: Đure Salaja 3
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

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Summary: This project sets out to demonstrate that the work of Joyce and Faulkner shares one of the salient traits of modernist fiction: the simultaneous existence of two extreme tendecies revealed in its two narrative/ stylistic complexes. This simultaneity often leads to great intensity and heightening, but is as often strongly subversive. The first complex leads to reader identification mostly through poetic metaphoric style, subjective psychological character presentation, focalized narration and interior monologue. The second complex distances the reader bringing the discourse into the foreground: with respect to narration diegesis replaces mimesis, and stylistically reader identification is undermined by metafictionality and parody. Following this definition of modernism the author goes in search of analogies between Joyce and Faulkner concluding that within the first complex they use the same strategies and achieve comparable effects; in the second complex they often distance the reader with analogous strategies (parody and juxtaposition, piling up of styles and genres, self-conscious elaboration of narrative modes).

Keywords: modernism, narration, subversion, parody, metafiction, Joyce, Faulkner

Research goals: This project has three principal aims, centering around three focal clusters of problems: 1. a critical presentation and evaluation of narrative theory with special regard for narrative mediation between narrator and character, focussing on the transposition of speech/thought (free indirect style, interior monologue) and on distancing types of narration. 2. a contribution to the theory of modernism, seen as a potentially subversive combination/juxtaposition of the two stylistic/narrative complexes outlined above and 3. placing the work of Joyce and Faulkner inside these parameters, which leads us to the discovery of interesting analogies and relations. The result of this investigation will include new insights in all three clusters and culminate in the first exhaustive presentation and comparison of the narrative strategies of Joyce and Faulkner.

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