'WHO WAS GERTY? " THE DISRUPTION OF VOICES IN THE "NAUSICAA " EPISODE OF ULYSSES

According to Bakhtin's theory on h e novel as a dialogic genre, which he describes as: "multifonn in style and variform in speech and voice," ' the reader of any novel becomes an investigator confronted with several heterogenous unities, often located on different linguistic levels, and subject to different stylistic controls. The languageof a novel is therefore theC'system of its languages " by which means different themes are orchestrated. This heteroglossic principle, which explains the distinctive links and interrelationships between utterances and words, is precisely the fundamental feature of the stylistics of a novel such as James Joyce's Ulysses. In Joyce's work the novelistic whole is constantly breaking down into different stylistic unities which bring about the appearance of a diversity of individual voices. In the "Nausicaa " episode the reader of Ulysses is offered for the fxst time a predominantly female world which is stylistically articulated through the inclusion of both indirect and direct monologue. The first part of the chapter is mostly occupied with the female protagonist's inner thoughts presented through a third person narrator