Joyce Effects

On Language, Theory, and History

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by Derek Attridge

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published April 2000, 226 pages, paper

ISBN 0521777887

Attridge examines the way Joyce's writing challenges and transforms our understanding of language, literature, and history and offers in-depth analysis of Joyce's major works. This collection represents fifteen years of close engagement with Joyce by Attridge and reflects the changing course of Joyce criticism during this period.

Contents

1. Introduction: on being a Joycean
2. Deconstructive criticism of Joyce
3. Popular Joyce?
4. Touching 'Clay': Reference and reality in Dubliners
5. Joyce and the ideology of character
6. 'Suck was a queer word': Language, sex, and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
7. Joyce, Jameson, and the text of history
8. Wakean history: not yet
9. Molly's flow: the writing of 'Penelope' and the question of women's language
10. The postmodernity of Joyce: chance, coincidence, and the reader
11. Countlessness of live-stories: narrativity in Finnegans Wake
12. Finnegans awake, or the dream of interpretation
13. The Wake's confounded language
14. Envoi
Judging Joyce