Lessons of Ulysses

• Grant number: 18/03753-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: August 01, 2018
• End date: January 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Fabio Akcelrud Durão
• Grantee: Fabio Akcelrud Durão
• Host Investigator: Stephen Ross
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Victoria (UVic), Canada

Abstract

This project proposes to describe a set of modernist techniques developed by James Joyce in his Ulysses. The intention is to identify one technique per episode and explain it as autonomously as possible. One main objetive is to offer a contribution to the current literary debate in Brazil, which seems to be marked by two falsely contradictory positions: one the hand a literature based on spontaneity and immediacy, where technique is secondary, and on the other a literature which conceives of technique as detached from life, as an abstract artifact.