Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Ulysses：the Book

1.11 My“Encounter”with Joyce

1.12 Ulysses：a Synopsis

1.13 Ulysses：Homeric Parallels and the“Sun's Path”

1.14 Ulysses：Its Stylistic Innovations

1.2 Ulysses'Criticism

1.21 Literary Criticism

1.22 Linguistic/Stylistic Criticism

1.3 Theoretical Preliminaries

1.31 Style：a Working Definition

1.32 Stream-of-Consciousness style

1.33 The Theory of Foregrounding

Chapter 2 Sound Effects

2.1 Symbolic Sounds

2.11 The Church Bells：an Overtone of Death

2.12 The“Jingling”Sounds：Suggesting Sexuality

2.2 Phonological Figures

2.21 Plett's Model of Phonological Figures

2.22 Phonological Figures of Metaphonemes

2.23 Phonological Figures of Isophonemes

2.24 Some Unusual Phonological Figures

2.25 The Tendency Towards Poeticity in Ulysses

2.3 Musical Genres

2.31 The Fugue：a Prelude to the Musical Episode

2.32 Songs in“Sirens”

Chapter 3 Lexical Inventiveness

3.1 Special Conversion

3.11 Verb Conversion

3.12 Non-verb Conversion

3.2 Unusual Compounds

3.21 Noun Compounds

3.22 Verb Compounds

3.23 Adjective Compounds

3.24 Jumbled Compounds

3.3 Comic word-play

3.31 Puns

3.32 Word-play

Chapter 4 Syntactical Variations：Hiberno-English in Ulysses

4.1 Why This Topic？

4.2 Hiberno-English Syntax

4.21 The Historical Development of Hiberno-English

4.22 Some Features of Present-day Hiberno-English

4.3 Hiberno-English in Ulysses

4.31 Inversion

4.32 Omission of the Subject-relative or Connector

4.33 Special TMA Markers

4.34 Other Salient Features

4.4 Reading beyond Hiberno-English

Chapter 5 Stylistic Parody and Pastiche

5.1 Parody and Pastiche

5.2 Parody and Pastiche for Mockery

5.3 Parody and Pastiche for Other Purposes

Chapter 6 Conclusion

6.1 Concluding Remarks

6.2 Open Questions

Appendix 1 James Joyce's Life Events

Appendix 2 Ulysses and Homeric Parallels

Appendix 3 Ulysses'Schema

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