This thesis is an analysis of the chiastic structure in the tenth episode of James Joyce's Ulysses, Wandering Rocks, and how it relates to the chiastic elements in the novel as a whole. My reading of Wandering Rocks and Ulysses is designed to explain the contradiction between the episode's appearance of structural stability and the novel's consistent denial of unifying structures. Chiastic structure will be shown to reflect a formal process of simultaneous growth and decay that develops in the novel, and the reading of Wandering Rocks will establish how the pattern traces points of convergence between the novel's aesthetics and the organic processes that occur in the referential level of the text. While I argue that Wandering Rocks announces an inevitable loss of structural stability, the examination of its structure reveals formal principles that remain consistent throughout Ulysses .
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.99375 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Howie, Jordan. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of English.) |
| Rights | © Jordan Howie, 2006 |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002571842, proquestno: AAIMR28560, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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