{"id":590,"date":"2016-11-21T04:56:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T04:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/?p=590"},"modified":"2016-11-21T04:57:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T04:57:43","slug":"first-annotation-somer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/uncategorized\/first-annotation-somer\/","title":{"rendered":"First Annotation (Somer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somer, John. &#8220;The Self-Reflexive Narrator in the Initial Style of Joyce&#8217;s &#8220;Ulysses&#8221;&#8221; <em>James Joyce Quarterly<\/em> 31.2 (1994): 65-76.<\/p>\n<p>In this article, Somer guides readers through an analysis of three figures central to the narrative structure of <em>Ulysses<\/em>: the author, the narrator, and \u201cthe arranger.\u201d In distinguishing between them, Somer explains that, \u201cwhile a narrator may appeal to a reader\u2019s mental ear, the arranger frequently appeals to a reader\u2019s physical eye\u201d (69). The arranger is responsible for the physical representation of text on the page, and, specifically in the context of <em>Ulysses, <\/em>instigates a \u201cself-reflexive\u201d engagement with the text that \u201cforces readers to acknowledge that they are reading\u201d (70). Somer explains that, over the course of <em>Ulysses, <\/em>the arranger and the narrator are at odds with each other \u2013 free indirect discourse, a mimetic narrative form that places readers \u201cin direct contact with reality\u201d (73), is often punctuated by moments where the arranger makes the reader critically aware of the novel\u2019s textuality (when Bloom\u2019s cat utters the orally improbable \u201cMkgnao\u201d [<em>U <\/em>4.16], for example). Somer goes on to cite instances of opaque language in \u201cCalypso\u201d and a divided narrative voice in \u201cHades\u201d as further evidence of the arranger\u2019s gradually increasing dominance over the more traditional, initial narrative structure of <em>Ulysses. <\/em>This battle between the narrator and the arranger persists for the duration of the novel until ultimately, Somer argues, the arranger reins victorious in \u201cSirens\u201d and demonstrates the epitome of what has been a \u201cgrowing mastery of style\u201d (76).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somer, John. &#8220;The Self-Reflexive Narrator in the Initial Style of Joyce&#8217;s &#8220;Ulysses&#8221;&#8221; James Joyce Quarterly 31.2 (1994): 65-76. In this article, Somer guides readers through an analysis of three figures central to the narrative structure of Ulysses: the author, the narrator, and \u201cthe arranger.\u201d In distinguishing between them, Somer explains that, \u201cwhile a narrator may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}