The Map of it All: Quantitative Mapping of Foreign Language in James Joyce's Ulysses

<p>Readers of James Joyce's Ulysses know that it is a cosmopolitan (multilingual) novel, but most do not know just how many foreign words Joyce used, altered, and inserted throughout the writing process, nor do they know the final tally in the 1922 Shakespeare & Co. edition. This dissertation approaches Joyce's foreign language from a quantitative and genetic perspective, counting all 2,525 foreign words and attributing each to episodes and characters to visualize where and how foreign language manifests in the novel. Genetic data in turn reveals that Ulysses was not always quite so multilingual but instead became more foreign during the writing process. My study explores these foreign words as one type of the "disunities" that Andrew Gibson proposes as entry points for understanding a modernist text's unique mimesis. I explore these foreign interruptions as contributing to a consistent sense of worldliness, or multiculturalism, in the novel. Finally, I turn toward reader-response theory and neuroscientific evidence to explore the foreign words of Ulysses as units of unfamiliarity that slow readers and elicit higher levels of neurological activity, ultimately helping readers learn to read differently.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

English, PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Year dc:date.available

2021

Author dc:creator

• Krueger, Alyssa

Contributors dc:contributor

• Enda Duffy
• David Luis-Brown

• foreign
• genetic
• James Joyce
• language
• quantitative
• Ulysses

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/216

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1235