This paper will explore how the reality can be represented the Ulysses by investigating an encyclopedic showroom of narrative techniques from the modernist aesthetics point of view. My studies start from the recognition that Ulysses is not just a novel of an "exit-author" but a dynamic novel in which different combinations of voice and perspective create a complex of narrative patterning and challenge the reader to create meaning of the text. Accordingly, the narrator`s personality and performance are continually changing: he wears a variety of masks like a chameleon. The pure telling of `Ithaca,` the pure showing of `Penelope,` or the blending of the two in various degrees are simply many of the possible disguises. My studies suggest that Joyce chooses this special rhetorical strategy in respect to the social and historical context of skepticism, relativity, and uncertainty of the modernist world. Considering that no one angle or narrative style would suffice to grasp the protean elusiveness of human nature in its completeness, Joyce believes that the best possible depiction of reality can only be achieved through illuminating identical incidents from many conflicting points of view and through different narrative techniques. |