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J A M E S J OY C E A N D T H E D I F F E R E N C E OF LANGUAGE
James Joyce and the Difference of Language 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. Topics covered include reading Joyce through translations, the role of Dante’s literary linguistics in Finnegans Wake, and the place of gender in Joyce’s Modernism; two further essays illustrate aspects of Joyce’s cultural politics in Ulysses and the ethics of desire in Finnegans Wake. Informed by current debates in Joyce scholarship, literary studies and critical theory, and addressing the full range of his writing, this volume is the first to examine comprehensively the critical diversity of Joyce’s linguistic practices. It is essential reading for all scholars of Joyce and Modernism. l au re n t m i l e s i is Lecturer in English and American Literature and Critical Theory at Cardiff University, and a member of the Joyce ITEM-CNRS Research Group in Paris. He is the author of numerous essays, mainly on Joyce and related aspects of Modernism, twentiethcentury American poetry, postmodernism and poststructuralism.
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Contents
List of contributors Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1
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Introduction: language(s) with a difference
1
Laurent Milesi
2
Syntactic glides
28
Fritz Senn
3
‘Cypherjugglers going the highroads’: Joyce and contemporary linguistic theories
43
Benoit Tadi´e
4
Madonnas of Modernism
58
Beryl Schlossman
5
Theoretical modelling: Joyce’s women on display
79
Diane Elam
6
The lapse and the lap: Joyce with Deleuze
97
Marie-Dominique Garnier
7
‘sound sense’; or ‘tralala’ / ‘moocow’: Joyce and the anathema of writing
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Thomas Docherty
8
Language, sexuality and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Derek Attridge
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Border disputes
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Ellen Carol Jones vi
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Errors and expectations: the ethics of desire in Finnegans Wake
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Patrick McGee
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Ex sterco Dantis: Dante’s post-Babelian linguistics in the Wake
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Lucia Boldrini
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No symbols where none intended: Derrida’s war at Finnegans Wake
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Sam Slote
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Contributors
d e re k at t r i d g e is Leverhulme Research Professor in the English Department at the University of York. He has published books on both Joyce and literary language, including Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce (Methuen and Cornell University Press, 1988) and Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History (Cambridge University Press, 2000). He edited The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (1990) and co-edited Post-structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French (Cambridge University Press, 1984), The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments between Language and Literature (Manchester University Press and Routledge, 1987), and Semicolonial Joyce (Cambridge University Press, 2000). lu c i a b o l d r i n i is Senior Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations: Language and Meaning in Finnegans Wake (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and of Biografie fittizie e personaggi storici: (Auto)biografia, soggettivit`a, teoria nel romanzo inglese contemporaneo (Pisa: ETS, 1998), and the editor of Medieval Joyce (Rodopi, 2002). t h o m a s d o c h e rt y is Professor of English at the University of Kent, and former Professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of a number of books, including most recently Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation (Oxford, 1996), After Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 1996) and Criticism and Modernity (Oxford University Press, 1999). He is currently working on a book about the cultural ethnography of European modernisms. d i a n e e l a m is Professor of English Literature and Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. She is the author of Romancing the Postmodern (Routledge, 1992) and Feminism and Deconstruction (Routledge, 1994), as well as co-editor with Robyn Wiegman of Feminism viii
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Beside Itself (Routledge, 1995). She is currently working on a book entitled ‘The Injustice of Truth: Notes Toward a Feminist Politics’. m a r i e - d o m i n i qu e g a r n i e r is Professor of English Literature at the University of Paris VIII, where she lectures on seventeenth-century poetry, drama and Modernism. She has published articles and book chapters mostly on Shakespeare, metaphysical poetry, Joyce and T. S. Eliot, co-authored a translation of The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1994), and published George Herbert: The Temple (Paris: Didier, 1997). She is the editor of Jardins d’Hiver (Paris: P.E.N.S., 1997), a collection of essays on literature and photography. She is currently working on a book project on Deleuze and literature, and a translation of selections from Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy (Gallimard). e l l e n c a ro l j o n e s is Associate Professor of English and International Studies at Saint Louis University, where she teaches Irish Studies and Women’s Studies. She has published articles on Holocaust representation and memory, Virginia Woolf, and especially James Joyce. She is coediting Twenty-First Joyce for University Press of Florida (provisional date: 2003), and has edited Joyce: Feminism / Post / Colonialism (Rodopi, 1998) and four volumes for Modern Fiction Studies: Feminist Readings of Joyce (1989), The Politics of Modernism (1992), Virginia Woolf (1992), and, as a co-editor, Feminism and Modern Fiction (1988). pat r i c k m C g e e is a Professor in the Department of English at Louisiana State University. His most recent publications include Ishmael Reed and the Ends of Race (St Martin’s Press, 1997), Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and Joyce beyond Marx: History and Desire in ‘Ulysses’ and ‘Finnegans Wake’ (University Press of Florida, 2001). l au re n t m i l e s i teaches Twentieth-Century American Literature and Critical Theory at Cardiff University (Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory), and is also a member of the Joyce ITEM-CNRS Research Group in Paris. His essays are mainly on Joyce and related aspects of Modernism, twentieth-century American poetry, postmodernism and poststructuralism (Lacan and Derrida). He is currently completing two monographs, on Jacques Derrida (in French) and on Post-Effects: Literature, Theory and the Future Perfect. b e ry l s c h lo s s m a n is the author of several books of literary criticism: Joyce’s Catholic Comedy of Language (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985),
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Contributors The Orient of Style: Modernist Allegories of Conversion (Duke University Press, 1991), and Objects of Desire: The Madonnas of Modernism (Cornell University Press, 1999), as well as Angelus Novus, a collection of poems published by Ulysse Fin de Si`ecle (France) in 1995. A story entitled ‘Tableaux a` l’´etranger [Foreign Pictures]’ is forthcoming in France. She teaches at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
f r i t z s e n n is in charge of the James Joyce Foundation in Zurich. As an amateur scholar he has written essays, articles and notes, almost exclusively on Joyce or translation problems (with forays into ochlokinetics or Sambal). Some of them are collected in Nichts gegen Joyce: Joyce versus Nothing (Zurich: Haffmans Verlag, 1983), Joyce’s Dislocutions: Essays on Reading as Translation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984), Inductive Scrutinies: Focus on Joyce (Lilliput Press, 1995) and Nicht nur Nichts gegen Joyce (Haffmans Verlag, 1999). s a m s lot e is the Joyce scholar in residence at the Poetry/Rare Books Collection, SUNY-Buffalo. He has written The Silence in Progress of Dante, Mallarm´e, and Joyce (Peter Lang, 1999) and has co-edited two volumes of Joyce criticism: Probes: Genetic Studies in Joyce (1995) and Genitricksling Joyce (1999), both for Rodopi. b e n o i t ta d i e´ is a lecturer in English and American literature at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. He has translated Dubliners into French (Paris, Garnier-Flammarion, 1994) and is the author of L’Exp´erience moderniste anglo-am´ericaine 1908–1922 (Paris, Didier, 1998).
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Acknowledgements
Since its timid beginning in the distant wake of a panel on ‘Joyce and Linguistics’ at the 1992 International Joyce Symposium in Dublin and, more decisively, its conception as a publication project some four and a half years later, the present collection has undergone so many of the vicissitudes of what is usually called ‘life’ that drawing up a list of those who have at various stages showed their support and encouragement would be an impossible task. Yet a few names deserve special mention, without whose help the volume would never have come to fruition. Pride of place has to be given to the contributors themselves, for their patience during the too many frustrating postponements and, in some cases, their permission to republish earlier or different versions of their work: Derek Attridge’s essay first appeared as chapter 5 of Joyce Effects. On Language, Theory, and History (Cambridge University Press, 2000); Lucia Boldrini’s study was developed at greater length as chapter 3 of Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations: Language and Meaning in ‘Finnegans Wake’ (Cambridge University Press, 2001); Patrick McGee’s contribution is a concise version of chapter 7 of Joyce beyond Marx: History and Desire in ‘Ulysses’ and ‘Finnegans Wake’ (University Press of Florida, 2001); and Beryl Schlossman’s piece appeared in a different form in Objects of Desire: The Madonnas of Modernism (Cornell University Press, 1999). Extracts from the oeuvre of James Joyce as well as, exceptionally, from the letters are reproduced with the permission of the C the Estate of James Joyce. Estate; I also wish to thank especially Ray Ryan, the Commissioning Editor at Cambridge University Press, for never relinquishing his support throughout the book’s difficult gestation, even when more than belief must have been required. Colleagues and friends at Cardiff University, especially Catherine Belsey and the congenial staff at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, have also played their part in keeping up the little concentration of a defeated editor in the all-too-numerous sombre moments. More recently, Tom Dawkes, from the ASSL Library at Cardiff University, has been up to xi
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his usual helpful and resourceful self by volunteering to chase up last-minute elusive references. Last and first, I wish to acknowledge the unflinching support of my wife, without whom I know that this book would never have had a chance to see the light of day – and to whom therefore it is dedicated.
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Abbreviations
Unless otherwise specified, the following editions of Joyce’s works or studies on Joyce have been used and abbreviated. References to Ulysses are given by chapter and line, those to Finnegans Wake by page and line (or, occasionally, book and chapter); those to other works are by page only. D FW JJ JJA Letters I, II III P SH SL U
Dubliners: Text, Criticism, and Notes. Viking Critical Library. Ed. Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz. New York: Viking, 1969. Finnegans Wake. London: Faber, 1975. Richard Ellmann, James Joyce. New and rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. The James Joyce Archive. 63 vols. Gen. ed. Michael Groden. New York: Garland, 1977–9 (volume citation conforms to the one given in the James Joyce Quarterly). Letters of James Joyce. 3 vols. London: Faber. Vol. I, ed. Stuart Gilbert, 1957; Vols. II, III, ed. Richard Ellmann, 1966. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Text, Criticism, and Notes. Viking Critical Library. Ed. Chester G. Anderson. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977. Stephen Hero. Ed. John J. Slocum and Herbert Cahoon. New York: New Directions, 1955 ed. Selected Letters of James Joyce. Ed. Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking, 1975. Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition. Ed. Hans Walter Gabler, with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior. 3 vols. New York: Garland, 1986.
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