James Joyce’s Silences

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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 Man and 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 Silences opens 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. Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Contributors Bibliographical Note Introduction: “Listening to the unspoken speech behind the words” ( P 242) Notes References Part One The Language of Silence 1 Active Silences Circean amplitudes “The [Silent] Sisters” Funereal Rhetorical Silentium! ( U 14.1457) Orchestrated silence Silence reigns supreme Tactics of evasion Lacunae Servile letters Epiphanic Notes References 2 Joyce’s Art of Silence in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Notes References 3 What Happens When “The silence speaks the scene” (FW 13.3)? Notes References 4 In the Beginning Was the Nil: The “eloquence of silence” in Finnegans Wake The secret(ion) of silent origins4 Vocalization, vowelization, and the “loud silence” of female identity Towards a postmodern rhetoric of silence Notes References Part Two The Aesthetics of Silence 5 “Fragments of shapes, hewn. In white silence: appealing”: Silence and the Emergence of a Style from Giacomo Joyce to Ulysses Silence and censorship Voicing noise Voicing silence Breaking silence Silence and gesture Visualized silence Notes References 6 Joyce and the Aesthetics of Silence: Absence and Loss in “Th e Dead”1 Notes References 7 “Affirmation and negations invalidated as uttered” in Ulysses and How It Is Notes References 8 “Shut up he explained”: Joyce and“ scornful silence” Notes References Part Three Writing Silence 9 The Silent Author of James Joyce’s Dictated Letters Notes References 10 “Secrets, silent . . . sit” in the Archives of Our Publishers: Untold Episodes from Joyce’s Italian Odyssey Preparatory to anything else A book on Joyce and Italy: Cederna and Joyce’s critical writings We’ll simply have to dress the character: Italian Joyce before and after Ulysses Notes References 11 The Silence of the Looms: “Penelope” as Translation Calypso “you couldnt hear your ears” “I could have been a prima donna” “the wrong things and no stops to say like making a speech” Weaving, unweaving “forthflowing, wending back” Notes References Part Four Translating Silence 12 Silent Translation in Joyce Joyce as a translator Deliberate deviations: Joyce’s early critical writings “There was something in his mind” :silent translation in Ulysses Silently translating Dante: translation, allusion, and quotation in Ulysses “sonorous silence” Notes References 13 “Mute chime and mute peal”: Notes on Translating Silences in Chamber Music Addendum Notes References 14 “Music hath jaws”: Translating Music and Silence in Ulysses Preliminaries Translating silence Translating Joyce’s onomatopoeic language Notes References Coda: Modernism/Silence 15 Forms of Silence in Literary Writing: James Joyce and Modernism Notes References Index