Metaphoricity in James Joyce's Ulysses

Among Rhododendrons: People And Objects in James Joyceâ•Žs Ulysses

The Play of Musement in James Joyce's "ulysses" (ireland)

summary) The eighteen episodes of Ulysses, each written in a different style, constitute a radical, new approach to matters pertaining to fiction, language, and understanding, as Hugh Kenner has suggested in Joyce's Voices. Previous studies of the styles of Ulysses have been hampered by some of the very presuppositions which are overturned by the novel itself. These presuppositions concern conc...

Measuring metaphoricity

This paper presents the first computationally-derived scalar measurement of metaphoricity. Each input sentence is given a value between 0 and 1 which represents how metaphoric that sentence is. This measure achieves a correlation of 0.450 (Pearson’s R, p <0.01) with an experimental measure of metaphoricity involving human participants. While far from perfect, this scalar measure of metaphoricit...

The Ineluctable Modality of the Audible: Exploring the sound worlds of James Joyce’s Ulysses

James Joyce’s Ulysses takes us into the world of Leopold Bloom; we see through his eyes, hear through his ears and think through his thoughts. We develop an intimate relationship with the interior and exterior world of the man. Through the work Joyce puts the question “Where do we live?” and answers it through making concrete the interdependence of our experiences, inner and outer, which provid...

Metaphoricity Signals: A Corpus-Based Investigation

In this paper, we shall refer to these common collocations as ‘metaphoricity signals’ or just signals, when the meaning is clear, and in section 2 we shall present a list and classification. Before doing this however, it is necessary to say a few words about terminology since our use of term ‘metaphoricity signal’ is potentially misleading both with respect to the word ‘signal’ and to the word ...