James Joyce and the Difference of Language [Hardcover]

This collection of essays comprehensively examines the critical diversity of Joyce's linguistic practices.This collection of essays offers a fresh 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. Drawing on cu rrent debates in Joyce scholarship, literary studies and critical theory, and addressing the full range of his writing, this volume is the first to comprehensively examine the critical diversity of Joyce's linguistic practices.This collection of essays offers a fresh 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. Drawing on cu rrent debates in Joyce scholarship, literary studies and critical theory, and addressing the full range of his writing, this volume is the first to comprehensively examine the critical diversity of Joyce's linguistic practices.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 comprehensivel£6