Sentence Complexity In James Joyce's A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man And William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury
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The present study is based on stylistic analysis of James Joyce’s
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and William Faulkner’s
The Sound and the Fury. This paper aims to investigate the reason
behind using complex sentences as a stylistic feature in these two
literary works. The study analyzes how these two authors have
used linguistic features like sentence complexity as a means of
transmitting ideas, portraying characters and relating events which
are central to the story. The analysis is based on Halliday’s and
Matthiessen’s model (2014) in order to analyze complex sentences
and their constituent components. It is concluded that James Joyce
uses complex sentences in order to show the phases of his main
character’s growth from infancy to manhood. However, William
Faulkner uses complex sentences in his novel as a means by which
he distinguishes his characters’ personalities.
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