The Language of James Joyce

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".