James Joyce and the Difference of Language

by Laurent Milesi (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays offers an original look at Joyce's writing by placing his language at the intersection of various critical perspectives: linguistics, philosophy, feminism, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism and intertextuality. Combining detailed textual analysis and theoretically informed study, an international team of leading scholars explores how Joyce's experiments with language repeatedly challenge our ways of reading. Drawing on current debates in Joyce scholarship, literary studies and critical theory, this volume comprehensively examines the critical diversity of Joyce's use of language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521036597
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/30/2007
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Laurent Milesi is Lecturer in English and American Literature and Critical Theory at Cardiff University, and a member of the Joyce ITEM-CNRS Research Group in Paris. He is the author of numerous essays, mainly on Joyce and related aspects of modernism, 20th-century American poetry, postmodernism and poststructuralism.

Table of Contents

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.