James Joyce and the Difference of Language

Laurent Milesi 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, 20th-century American poetry, postmodernism and poststructuralism.

• Contributors; Acknowledgments; References and abbreviations; 1. Introduction: language(s) with a difference Laurent Milesi; 2. Syntactic glides Fritz Stern; 3. 'Cypherjugglers going the highroads': Joyce and contemporary linguistic theories Benoit Tadié; 4. Madonnas of modernism Beryl Schlossman; 5. Theoretical modelling: Joyce's women on display Diane Elam; 6. The lapse and the lap: Joyce with Deleuze Marie-Dominique Garnier; 7. 'Sound sense'; or 'tralala'/'moocow': Joyce and the anathema of writing Thomas Docherty; 8. Language, sexuality and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Derek Attridge; 9. Border disputes Ellen Carol Jones; 10. Errors and expectations: the ethics of desire in Finnegans Wake Patrick McGee; 11. Ex sterco Dantis: Dante's post-Babelian linguistics in the Wake Lucia Boldrini; 12. No symbols where none intended: Derrida's war at Finnegans Wake Sam Slote; Works cited; Index.