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The Languages of Joyce
Selected Papers from the 11th International James Joyce Symposium Venice 1988
The papers collected in this volume capture some of the excitement of the 11th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Venice and Trieste, June 1988. ‘The contents of this book are by no means as restrictive as the title might suggest. The contributors explore not only Joyce’s ‘languages’ and modes of communication and meaning, but, as well, concepts of significance and communication in broader contexts. Through Joyce, the writers explore and develop their own approaches and theories about language and languages, about semiotics and understanding. And about psychology, gender, physiology, politics, philosophy, linguistics, science, and culture. About literature in other words.’
[Not in series, 54] 1992. xx, 277 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 13 February 2012
Published online on 13 February 2012
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- IntroductionRosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli | p. ix
- Abbreviations | pp. xix–xx
- The Languages of JoyceGiorgio Melchiori | p. 1
- Joyce, Semiosis and SemioticsUmberto Eco | p. 19
- The Language of the Repressed
- Silences: Where Joyce’s Language StopsMarilyn French | p. 41
- The Return of the Repressed in Joyce: (Self) Censorship and the Making of a ModernistSusan Stanford Friedman | p. 55
- Representing Interiority: Spaces of Sexuality in UlyssesJoseph A. Boone | p. 69
- “Goddinpotty”: James Joyce and the Language of ExcrementVincent J. Cheng | p. 85
- The Ghosts of UlyssesMaud Ellmann | p. 103
- “The Voice of an Unseen Reader” in Giacomo JoyceElisabeth Brunazzi | p. 121
- Re-Signings, Re: Signatures: Joyce and Pound Reading Shakespeare’s WillKathryne V. Lindberg | p. 127
- The Language of Presence
- Shem the TextmanHugh Kenner | p. 145
- Dubliners: Double Binds (the Constraints of Childhood and Youth)Bernard Benstock | p. 155
- James Joyce and Gift ExchangePhillip F. Herring | p. 173
- The Limits of Language
- Going Back to the ReturnJean François Lyotard | p. 193
- Linguistic Dissatisfaction in the WakeFritz Senn | p. 211
- Towards the SublimeKlaus Reichert | p. 223
- Joyce in BabyloniaAnnie Tardits | p. 229
- Physics, Rhetoric, and the Language of Finnegans WakeDirk Vanderbeke | p. 249
- “Untitled”Alan R. Roughley | p. 257
- Notes on Contributors | pp. 265–270
- Index | pp. 271–277
“Throughout the collection we encounter active, probing intelligences exploring not only Joyce's “languages” and modes of communication and meaning, but, as well, concepts of significance and communication in broader context. Through Joyce, the writers explore and develop their own approaches and theories about language and languages, about semiotics and understanding. And about psychology, gender, physiology, politics, philosophy, linguistics, science, and culture.”
Morris Beja
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