James Joyce's Silences [Hardcover]

In this landmark book, leading international scholars from North America, Europe and the UK offer a sustained critical attention to the concept of silence in Joyce's writing. Examining Joyce's major works, includingUlysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManandFinnegans Wake, the critics present intertextual and comparative interpretations of Joyce's deployment of silence as a complex overarching narratological strategy.

Exploring the many dimensions of what is revealed in the absences that fill his writing, and the different roles  aesthetic, rhetorical, textual and linguistic  that silence plays in Joyce's texts,James Joyce's Silencesopens up important new avenues of scholarship on the great modernist writer.

This volume is of particular interests to all academics and students involved in Joyce and Irish studies, modernism, comparative literature, poetics, cultural studies and translation studies.

Jolanta Wawrzyckais Professor of English at Radford University, USA. She is the editor ofReading Joycean Temporalities(2018) and co-editor ofPortals of Recovery(2017) andGender in Joyce(1996).

Serenella Zanottiis Associate Professor in English Language and Translation at Roma Tre University, Italy. She is the author ofItalian Joyce: A Journey through Language and Translation(2013).

Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Biographical Note

Introduction: Listening to the unspoken speech behind the words (P242)
Jolanta Wawrzycka (Radford University, USA) and Serenella Zanotti (Universit? Roma Tre, Italy)

Part 1: The Language of Silence
1. Active Silences
Fritz Senn (Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Switzerland)

2. Joyce's Art of Silence inDublinersandA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Laura Pelaschiar (University of Trieste, Italy)

3. What Happens When 'Silence Speaks the SlSC