Journal of Modernism and Postmodernism Studies

Yazarlar: MARYAM NAJAFIBABANAZAR

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DOI:10.47333/modernizm.2021171851

Anahtar Kelimeler:Alienation,Liminality,Ulysses,Liminal Spaces,Heterotopia,James Joyce

Özet: The main focus of this article is to analyze how physical spaces and landscape are employed to reflect and represent alienation and isolation of individuals in Ulysses and to specify how alienation is textually encoded in the form of the novel through the places and spaces which mostly are liminal. The protagonists of Ulysses are reflecting a deep sense of spatial alienation in their own descriptions of physical spaces. It is noticeable that in this novel the idea of alienation is encoded in all of Dublin’s places and spaces, and this use of places as markers of, or embodiments of alienation, shapes the form of the novel as alienating, too: the form of Ulysses has been shown to be molded around the unhomed wanderings of Stephen and Bloom around Dublin.  Joyce’s representation of alienation is multiplex and more predominantly a social alienation, where, although there is an active social life in Dublin, the individuals lead alienated lives within an isolated city in a marginalized and colonized island. These people’s psychological alienation comes along with their historical, political, cultural, and physical isolation and exilic states. Thus, it is possible to claim that Joyce projects his sense of alienation and all the Dubliners' sense of estrangement in Stephen’s and Bloom's dislocation and loneliness in their hometown.

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