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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• O'Callaghan, Katherine
• Bénéjam, Valérie
• Bishop, John

Titel

Mapping the 'Call from Afar': The Echo of Leitmotifs in James Joyce's Literary Landscape

Ist Teil von

• Making Space in the Works of James Joyce, 2011, p.173-190

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Joyce's abundant use of repetition, far from inducing a sense of monotony, serves to liberate the multiple resonances latent within repeated words, phrases, and images in his works. Concurrent with the linear trajectory of his texts, instances of repetition attain the capacity to transport the reader between distant and dislocated junctures, provoking a spatial as well as temporal reading process fuelled by the reader's memory. The resonating motif may not replace syntax in Joyce's writing, but through its manifestation as a "leitmotif" (literally a leading motif) complicates and interrupts the uni-directional flow of the text.