Doubtful points : Joyce and punctuation / edited by Elizabeth M. Bonapfel and Tim Conley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bonapfel, Elizabeth M., editor.

Conley, Tim, 1972- editor.

Series:

European Joyce studies ; 23.

European Joyce Studies ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Joyce, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York, New York : Rodopi, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As unusual or esoteric as the subject might seem, Joyce’s punctuation offers a way to study and appreciate his stylistic innovations and the materiality of his textual productions. Joyce’s shunning of what he called “perverted commas” and the general absence of punctuation in Molly Bloom’s monologue are only the most infamous instances of a deeply idiosyncratic and changeable use of punctuation. The essays collected in Doubtful Points: Joyce and Punctuation investigate ellipses, parentheses, commas, dashes, colons, semi-colons, full stops, and even diacritics to explore a surprising array of contingent subjects: Joyce’s working relationships with publishers; questions of editing and translation; hermeneutic and epistemological dilemmas and reading strategies; linguistic nationalisms; the ideological effects of regulated writing; and more. This book is sure to edify and intrigue “fullstoppers” and “semicolonials” alike.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Elizabeth M. Bonapfel and Tim Conley

Introduction / Elizabeth M. Bonapfel and Tim Conley

Errant Commas and Stray Parentheses / Fritz Senn

espacement, the final frontier / Sam Slote

In Between the Sheets: Sexy Punctuation in American Magazines / Amanda Sigler

Marking Realism in Dubliners / Elizabeth M. Bonapfel

The Poetics of the Unsaid: Joyce’s Use of Ellipsis between Meaning and Suspension / Annalisa Volpone

“By Dot and Dash System”: Punctuation and the Void in “Ithaca” / Teresa Prudente

“(hic sunt lennones!)”: Reading and Misreading the Wake’s “Signs of Suspicion” / Paul Fagan

Fullstoppers and Fools Tops: The “Compunction” of Punctuation and Geometry in Finnegans Wake / Federico Sabatini

Diacritic Aspirations and Servile Letters: Alphabets and National Identities in Joyce’s Europe / Tekla Mecsnóber

Punctuated Equilibria and the Exdented Dash / Erik Bindervoet and Robbert-Jan Henkes

“Tuck in your blank!”: Antiaposiopetic Joyce / Tim Conley

Notes on Contributors / Elizabeth M. Bonapfel and Tim Conley.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-012-1183-3

OCLC:

936201526

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401211833 DOI