Chapter 4
Caught between figural subjectivity and narratorial exuberance in “Scylla and Charybdis”
Article outline
- 4.1Background: The narratological dilemma of agency in Ulysses
- 4.2Overview of the “Scylla” narrative and style
- 4.2aInitial analysis
- 4.2bThe possibility of a narratorial reading
- 4.3Evidence for the FIS representation of Stephen’s consciousness
- 4.3aEvidence of FIP
- 4.3bStylistic deviation as FIS
- 4.3cNarratological perspectives on Stephen’s subjectivity
- 4.3dNon-reflective consciousness and parallel processing
- 4.4Ambiguous FIS as dual subjectivity
- 4.4aMetafiction in “Scylla”