James Joyce and the Difference of Language

by Edited by Laurent Milesi

• ISBN13: 9780521036597
• ISBN10: 0521036593
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: Language (S) with a Difference	p. 1
Notes	p. 21
Syntactic Glides	p. 28
'Cypherjugglers Going the Highroads': Joyce and Contemporary Linguistic Theories	p. 43
Notes	p. 57
Madonnas of Modernism	p. 58
Notes	p. 78
Theoretical Modelling: Joyce's Women on Display	p. 79
Notes	p. 93
The Lapse and the Lap: Joyce with Deleuze	p. 97
Notes	p. 110
'sound Sense'; or 'tralala'/ 'Moocow': Joyce and the Anathema of Writing	p. 112
Notes	p. 126
Language, Sexuality and the Remainder in a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	p. 128
Notes	p. 141
Border Disputes	p. 142
Notes	p. 155
Errors and Expectations: the Ethics of Desire in Finnegans Wake	p. 161
Ex Sterco Dantis: Dante's Post-Babelian Linguistics in the Wake	p. 180
Notes	p. 194
No Symbols Where None Intended: Derrida's War at Finnegans Wake	p. 195
Notes	p. 205
Works Cited	p. 208
Index	p. 225
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