Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyse how James Joyce builds a large part of his narrative through a verbal tissue that is born from the cognitive experience, from the deep interaction between mind and environment. Beyond the psychoanalytic approach or Psychological realism, Joyce, particularly in Ulysses, displays this reading of reality in which a series of cognitive events form a narrative continuum. Reality appears before us through the perceptions of the protagonists, and that is the reason why we only access an incomplete view of reality itself. Partiality or incompleteness is a fundamental characteristic of Ulysses. However, Joyce aspires to build up a coherent and solid universe. Joyce creates a continuous reality through the semantic flow, often chaotic and blurry. Joycean language reveals the inconsistencies and instabilities of one's life, when it is impossible to transmit what cannot be apprehended completely, whether due to mental dysfunctions, hallucinations or other causes, as in Finnegans Wake. In this study, we also consider etymology as a tool that provides stability and linguistic richness to Joyce’s narrative, although subjecting it to hard transformations or mutation processes. Joyce finds great stylistic possibilities in the words used as semantic repositories that come from the past, and, with his passion for language, is able to build cognitive moments that rely on etymology. In the light of the most recent cognitive theories applied to Joyce's work, this study shows how the combination of mind, body and environment builds reality in Joyce, especially in Ulysses, overcoming traditional analyses around the inner monologue or the individual mind. Confirming previous studies, we consider that Joyce builds reality through microhistories, sketches, discursive or introspective cognitive events. However, to form a continuous substrate, that contributes to the construction of identity in Ulysses, Joyce deploys strategic frameworks, such as paternity or adultery.
Highlights
The purpose of this study is to analyse how James Joyce builds a large part of his narrative through a verbal tissue that is born from the cognitive experience, from the deep interaction between mind and environment
Lmost a hundred years later, the universe of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1992) appears before us as a verbal tapestry woven from the cognitive experience, from the deep interaction between mind and reality
It is just the result of Joyce’s use of a very literary and complex language, derived from the application of avantgarde aesthetics and experimentalism. It could be considered as the reflection of the semantic formulation of the world, a reflection often imperfect, fragmentary, full of incomplete acts, which are interrupted by others, invaded by tangential meanings or etymological fallacies, by suggestions and emotions caused by the presence of certain objects inserted in cognitive frameworks. Syntax, according to this criterion, is not just the result of a serialized construction of thoughts in a literary fabric like the one that Joyce creates in Ulysses, but rather the accumulation and selection of meanings, the result of the mental process of information by the acquisition and storage of knowledge from material interactions, which includes “the scope of parallelism”
Summary
El propósito de este estudio es analizar cómo James Joyce construye una gran parte de su narrativa a través de un tejido verbal que nace de la experiencia cognitiva, de la interacción profunda entre la mente y el entorno. Joyce encuentra grandes posibilidades estilísticas en las palabras utilizadas como depósitos semánticos que provienen del pasado y, con su pasión por el lenguaje, es capaz de construir momentos cognitivos que dependen de la etimología. A la luz de las teorías cognitivas más recientes aplicadas al trabajo de Joyce, este estudio muestra cómo la combinación de mente, cuerpo y entorno construye la realidad en Joyce, especialmente en Ulises, superando los análisis tradicionales en torno al monólogo interior o la mente individual. Confirmando estudios previos, consideramos que Joyce construye la realidad a través de microhistorias, bocetos, eventos cognitivos discursivos o introspectivos. Palabras clave: James Joyce; Ulysses; Finnegans Wake; cognición; análisis del discurso
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