《尤利西斯》中巧妙的語言建構

“Proper Words in Improper Places”: Syntactic Play in Ulysses

對詹姆士、喬伊斯而言，語言總是以極度自由來恣意建構以舞出思考的美妙樂章。基本上只是呈現物體與事實的方式就可展現出作者對現實認知的態度。在《尤利西斯》中可明顯觀察到各種不同技巧的運用，比如透過諧詼體來把俗事誇張化。同時為了顛覆傳統語言的桎梏，就必須創造出新的語法；而為了歷史記憶，卻又必須大量運用典故及古人的智慧之語。因此，為了諸多不同的用途，作者就建構了形形色色不同風格的文體。本篇論文旨在探討這些風格的巧思如何抒情表達了深沉的文學意涵。

For James Joyce, style may be a play with the freedom of newly created forms and the words dance out their own rhythms when they fly at random in the mind. Basically, Joyce’s stylistic presentations of objects and facts signify his stances toward the real world, or reality. Various devices, such as linguistic parodies, have been devised to aggrandize the mundane. The language in Ulysses often transgresses the borderline to problematize the established conventions, but flooded by the memory of prior uses, it is colored by a citational quality. In fact, many of the stylistic eccentricities can be classified as different types of rhetorical performances for specific purposes. This study will probe into the syntactical contrivances of Ulysses to reveal the lyricalness of the fiction.