Appropriating Joyce: James Joyce`s Stylistic Influence On Robert Anton Wilson

Abstract

本論文細述作家勞勃安東威爾遜如何挪用原為詹姆斯喬哀斯所採用的幾種風格技巧，該等技巧及其相關的原素涵蓋了不合理的銜接和拼湊的口語、並行發生的情節、借用的風格、戲劇、語言的戲耍、歌曲/押韻詩、角色交錯、露骨的性描述、組合法則、將自傳素才溶入小說以及直接比喻或論及喬哀斯。全文貫徹地論証雖然威爾遜的很多技巧來自喬哀斯，但他卻能將之化為自己的技巧－毫不畏言這些技巧的出處，結論重申威爾遜並非單純的模仿者：指出身為後代作家的他雖受前人喬哀斯的影響，然而他的作品除了這些影響以外，仍自有其可觀之處。

This paper demonstrates how several stylistic techniques originally employed by James Joyce have been appropriated by Robert Anton Wilson. These techniques and their related elements range from the use of non sequitur and verbal collage, synchronicity, borrowed styles, drama, linguistic play, song/rhyme, character cross-over, sexual frankness, organizing principles, fictuionalizing autobiographical elements, through direct allusion and/or reference to Joyce. The paper also maintains throughout that although Wilson received many ofthese thechniques (and more) from Joyce, he has managed to make them his own ... all the while acknowledging where he got them from. As a Final note, it is stressed the Wilson is not a mere imitator. While Wilson, the ephebe writer, has indeed been influenced in style by Joyce, the precursor author, there is much more to Wilson`s work than this influence. “Those readers who are not thinking of the constantly shifting perspectives in Ulysses ... are probably thinking of my own novels. Like Joyce, Brecht and Welles, I have always considered the Victorian novel, with its omniscient ( personal or impersonal) narrator and its one block-like “objective” “reality”, to be totally obsolete and incapable of conveying 20th Century experience. all the novel (or film) of today should attempt to do is recount how various people create their own individualized reality-tunnels in their guest for that ever-receding Holy Grail, “the real truth,” which exists, if at all, outside our space-time continuum.”