
The Language of James Joyce
Katie Wales(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 17. January 1992
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-333-48054-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents an analysis for students of the language and style of Joyce's major prose works in the light of current work in language studies, stylistics and literary theory. Each chapter addresses a particular aspect of the style of a prose work or text, rhetoric ("Dubliners", and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"), speech and thought presentation and word-play ("Ulysses") and sound-play ("Finnegans Wake").
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
further reading, notes, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
250 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-48054-0 (9780333480540)
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Content
Part 1 Joyce and Irish English: the history of English in Ireland; Joyce and Hiberno-English; Joyce and Anglo-Irish literature; the Joycean paradox. Part 2 Joyce and rhetoric - "Dubliners" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": Joyce and rhetoric; repetition in Dubliners; emotive rhetoric in "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; a portrait of the artist as a rhetorician. Part 3 Joyce's voices in "Ulysses": the voices of Ulysses; "The Steady Monologuy of the Interiors"; the "inner voices" of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom; the female voice - Molly's monologue; the dialogue of voices in "Ulysses". Part 4 The play of language in "Ulysses": Joyce and the ludic(rous); the play of sound and symbol; dislocutions of syntax; lexical creativity; licences of meaning; comic word-play; the art of parody; a portrait of the artist as a joker. Part 5 The "Ideal Reader" of "Finnegans Wake": to read, or not to read...; the reader's progress to "Finnegans Wake"; putting the language to sleep; here comes everything - endlessly repeated; "The Keys to Given!"; the "Ideal Reader" of "Finnegans Wake".