James Joyce and the Difference of Language

This collection of essays comprehensively examines the critical diversity of Joyce's linguistic practices.

Laurent Milesi (Edited by)

9780521036597, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 April 2007

248 pages
22.8 x 15.3 x 0.9 cm, 0.382 kg

James Joyce and the Difference of Language offers an alternative look at Joyce's writing by placing his language at the intersection of various critical perspectives: linguistics, philosophy, feminism, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism and intertextuality. Combining close textual analysis and theoretically informed readings, an international team of leading scholars explores how Joyce's experiments with language repeatedly challenge our ways of reading. Topics covered include reading Joyce through translations; the role of Dante's literary linguistics in Finnegans Wake; and the place of gender in Joyce's modernism. Two further essays illustrate aspects of Joyce's cultural politics in Ulysses and the ethics of desire in Finnegans Wake. Informed by debates in Joyce scholarship, literary studies and critical theory, and addressing the full range of his writing, this volume comprehensively examines the critical diversity of Joyce's linguistic practices. It is essential reading for all scholars of Joyce and modernism.

Contributors
Acknowledgments
References and abbreviations
1. Introduction: language(s) with a difference Laurent Milesi
2. Syntactic glides Fritz Stern
3. 'Cypherjugglers going the highroads': Joyce and contemporary linguistic theories Benoit Tadié
4. Madonnas of modernism Beryl Schlossman
5. Theoretical modelling: Joyce's women on display Diane Elam
6. The lapse and the lap: Joyce with Deleuze Marie-Dominique Garnier
7. 'Sound sense'
or 'tralala'/'moocow': Joyce and the anathema of writing Thomas Docherty
8. Language, sexuality and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Derek Attridge
9. Border disputes Ellen Carol Jones
10. Errors and expectations: the ethics of desire in Finnegans Wake Patrick McGee
11. Ex sterco Dantis: Dante's post-Babelian linguistics in the Wake Lucia Boldrini
12. No symbols where none intended: Derrida's war at Finnegans Wake Sam Slote
Works cited
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary theory [DSA]