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Write 8 pages with APA style on Each Text is Haunted by the Others. This is particularly the case with a text such as Ulysses, which introduced so many new techniques to the literary world and has at
Write 8 pages with APA style on Each Text is Haunted by the Others. This is particularly the case with a text such as Ulysses, which introduced so many new techniques to the literary world and has at least been acknowledged, if not directly used, by virtually every serious novelist since it was written. This essay will consider these two novels within the paradigm of Kristeva’s concept of intertextuality: that is that a text has two axes, one horizontal (connecting the author with the reader) and the other vertical, connecting the text with other texts.
The first section of this analysis will consider the vertical axis of Kristerva’s intertextual graph: the complex inter-relationships between these two texts completed more than forty years apart. One way that the two texts relate to one another is in the sheer complexity of their form. Both Joyce and Nabokov have been (and still are) accused of being cerebral, at times near impossible writers to understand. This accusation is laid against them for a number of reasons: first of all, the amount of knowledge that they assume within a reader, second, the at times convoluted internal structure of their works, and third, the lack of an obvious narrative line. While both Joyce (in early works such as Dubliners) and Nabokov (in his most famous work Lolita) at times did produce obviously narrative-driven writing:- with a clear beginning, middle and end, they tended to develop (some would say degenerate) – into a more complex structure as their literary lives developed.
One way in which Ulysses may be seen to foreshadow Nabokov’s later work, or in which Nabokov used Joyce’s earlier technique, is in the lack of a clear narrative viewpoint within the two works. Thus Ulysses is famously told, in the main, from the point of view of at least two different characters, Stephen Dedalus and Mr. Bloom. Different styles of writing are also used, including the use of straight prose, stream of consciousness, and at one point something appears to be a play script. Consider that the following all come .from the same novel.
