The Cinematic Features Of Joyce's Ulysses

This thesis was a discussion on the cinematic feature in Ulysses, which was the most innovative works in the history of British and American fiction.Joyce did a large contribution to the world literature.The cinematic feature is one of the major features in Ulysses.The author made clever use of the montage and multi-focalization narrative skills commonly used in film art techniques, and these skills were applied so skillfully that the characters walked along the streets of Dublin in a short period of eighteen hours.The first chapter briefly introduced the research background,methods of research, Joyce himself and the summary of Ulysses.In the second chapter an overview of the impact of films on Joyce was provided, actually in the20th century literary history Joyce was recognized by critics earlier with the writer of the cinematic imagination,which could be seen everywhere in his works.The third chapter mainly discussed the performance and application of the film artistic techniques of montage in the novel, and they were used to control the characters'awareness activities. Chapter four focused on three movies focalization narrative patterns from different levels and multiple perspectives to describe the objective external environment and to explore the inner world of characters. Joyce illustrated their respective life experiences, spiritual life and inner world vividly and showed the most abundant stream of consciousness connotation by a simple plot, whose contents extended to the Dublin politics, history, philosophy, psychology and other areas.In short, in Ulysses Joyce got rid of the limitations of time and space and skilfully controlled the character through the montage to explore their inner world and by means of the multi-focalization narrative mode he showed people's mental crisis in Ireland and even the whole western world from the unique artistic perspective.