제임스 조이스의 팰림세스트 역사서술 전략과 이념 (Joyce’s Narrative Strategy of Palimpsest and His Historical Perception)

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초록

팰림세스트(palimpsest)는 중세시대 양피지에 글을 기록한 텍스트로, 이 텍스트의 특징은 지워지지 않은 과거의 텍스트가 불완전하나마 그 흔적을 남긴 채 새로쓴 현재의 텍스트의 의미에 영향을 미친다는 점이다. 과거와 현재의 텍스트가 서로 중첩되고 교차하는 다의적 공간으로서의 팰림세스트는 조이스의 텍스트가 지닌실험적 특성을 밝혀주는 실마리가 된다. 특히 과거와 현재가 병존하며 서로 작용하는 팰림세스트의 이중성은 조이스의 특이한 역사서술 방식을 설명해주는 좋은은유가 된다. 과거 더블린의 정확성에 대한 조이스의 편집광적인 집착, 그러면서도그 정확성을 의도적으로 훼손하고 변형시킨 조이스의 역설적인 역사 서술방식은바로 팰림세스트의 텍스트가 지닌 이중성을 노출시킨다.

영어초록

This paper deals with Joyce’s historical sense and ideology in terms of the strategy of his narrative writing which is very similar with the medieval text of the palimpsest. In the medieval period, the palimpsest text on the parchment has been scraped off and can be used again. A palimpsest is thus of interest because, in an illusion of layered depth, “otherwise unrelated texts are involved and entangled, intricately interwoven, interrupting and inhabiting each other.”The process of palimpsest has a continuing relevance to the strategy of Joyce’s historical writing. It brings to light the past text which change the very way we interpret and know that past.
This study is mainly focused on how the Irish national history of “The Murders in Dublin Phoenix Park” in May 6, 1882 was textualized in Ulysses:the processes of intentional errors, the complex palimpsest, and the melodramatic romance. Joyce delighted in having his characters of Ulysses display their imperfect historical memories so that the readers fall into confusion and doubt about which are factual and fictional. The writer even intertwined this historical event with the others in its representation, to make the text a kind of palimpsest writing. By this narrative method of palimpsest writing, all of the courageous sacrifice of the revolutionary heroes are parodied in the melodramatic situation. Joyce attempted to expose and subvert Irish popular culture’s received notion of the national heroic martyrdom. It is the way for him to rebel the immutability of history, and to open the infinite possibility of national history.

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