A Defamiliarization Study Of "Portrait Of A Young Artist.

James Joyce is a very important modern writer in the literary world.He has carried on the bold innovation and the experiment to the western traditional literary order.A Portrait of the artist as a Young Man is not only the first novel of Joyce,but also an outstanding stream of consciousness novel.After the publication of the novel,its unique style has received great attention from critics.The novel is characterized by its language,narration and structure.Aiming at exploring the literary charm and the spiritual essence of this novel,this thesis attempts to make a thorough analysis of A Portrait of the artist as a Young Man from the perspectives of language and narrative techniques,by dint of studying the application of the theory of defamiliarization in the creation of this novel.Essentially,defamiliarization is a kind of innovation.The application of the theory of defamiliarization increases literary taste,prolongs aesthetic time,which brings the reader a new aesthetic experience.In order to achieve the effect of defamiliarization,the author should apply rhetoric and anomalous collocation to enrich the connotation of the word,to convert the perspective to conceal author effectively and give readers more freedom to interpret this novel.In this way readers enjoy aesthetic experience on the form of text.The last part of thesis summarizes the aesthetic characteristics of defamiliarization in the perspective of novelty,perception and aesthetic expansion and demonstrates how to develop the aesthetic effect.Defamiliarization not only makes the novel novelty and perceptible,but expands the readers aesthetic experience by breaking the aesthetic stereotype.