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Chartier, Ryan Weston

English

2013

M.A.

This is an essay dealing with the interconnectedness of James Joyce's writing and Sergei Eisenstein's theory of Montage. It expands upon the idea of montage technique in Joyce's writing of the exterior world and focuses on how these techniques come to form within the interior world of monologue as well. Utilizing Eisenstein's Five Methods of montage and other writings about monologue and Joyce, I form an argument that provides textual examples of moments in Wysses and other Joyce works where Eistein's theories are in dialogue with and help explain connections between literature and developing cinema. The essay focuses on Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom's monologues read through an Eisensteinian lens. I begin by reviewing Joyce's creation of the exterior world in Wysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and work towards the interior monologues throughout Wysses. There is a strong focus on sensory conflicts shaping the character's experiences, and with this, I apply the Five Montage Methods to extract meaning and shape the filmic nature ofJoyce's monologues. From this we work our way through an often tonal and overtonal reading of character monologues.