James Joyce's Silences - by Jolanta Wawrzycka & Serenella Zanotti (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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, including Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manand Finnegans 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.

Review Quotes

Impressive ... The essays in James Joyce's Silences enable passionate readers of Joyce to return to his texts so that his language speaks again, and anew.
Journal of Modern Literature

About the Author

Jolanta Wawrzycka is Professor of English at Radford University, USA. She is the editor of Reading Joycean Temporalities (2018) and co-editor of Portals of Recovery (2017) and Gender in Joyce (1996).

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