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O'Halloran, Kieran
(2007).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947007072847
Abstract
In James Joyce’s short story, ‘Eveline’, a young woman is thinking about a new life away from an unhappy existence which involves caring for a violent father. In the story Eveline is to elope with Frank to Buenos Aires, but Eveline fails to join him on the night boat. This story has attracted much critical attention. In particular, commentators have picked up on the faint clues throughout that Eveline is not going to leave her home. It is as though Eveline’s subconscious is communicating this while she is consciously reflecting on whether to elope with Frank. But how can such clues be identified in a systematic way whilst responding to the familiar charges made by Stanley Fish that stylistic analysis and interpretation is arbitrary and circular (Fish, 1980a)? In this article, I perform a corpus-informed stylistic analysis of ‘Eveline’ in order to reveal some of these subconscious intimations whilst reducing as much as possible arbitrariness and circularity in analysis and interpretation. To do so, I build on formal insights into ‘Eveline’ provided in Stubbs’ (2001) corpus-informed analysis by proceeding to a more functional exploration of the story.
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- Item ORO ID
- 7878
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 0963-9470
- Keywords
- arbitrariness; circularity; corpus stylistics; Fish, Stanley; implicit clues; systemic functional grammar; transitivity
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) - Research Group
- Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
- Copyright Holders
- © 2007 SAGE Publications
- Depositing User
- Kieran O'Halloran