James Joyce's Silences

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).

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsBiographical NoteIntroduction: "Listening to the unspoken speech behind the words" (P 242)Jolanta Wawrzycka (Radford University, USA) and Serenella Zanotti (Università Roma Tre, Italy)Part 1: The Language of Silence1. Active SilencesFritz Senn (Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Switzerland)2. Joyce’s Art of Silence in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManLaura Pelaschiar (University of Trieste, Italy)3. What Happens When ‘Silence Speaks the Scene’?Rosa Maria Bollettieri (University of Bologna) and Ira Torresi (University of Bologna-Forlì, Italy)4. In the Beginning was the Nil: The ‘Eloquence of Silence’ in Finnegans WakeLaurent Milesi (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)Part 2: The Aesthetics of Silence5. 'Fragments of Shapes, Hewn. In White Silence: Appealing': Silence and the Emergence of a Style from Giacomo Joyce to UlyssesJohn McCourt (Università Roma Tre, Italy) 6. Joyce and the Aesthetics of Silence: Absence and Loss in “The Dead”Teresa Caneda (University of Vigo, Spain)7. “Affirmations and Negations Invalidated as Uttered” in Ulysses and How It IsSam Slote (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)8. ‘Shut Up He Explained’: Joyce and ‘Scornful Silence’Morris Beja (Ohio State University, USA)Part 3: Writing Silence9. The Silent Author of James Joyce’s Dictated LettersWilliam S. Brockman (Pennsylvania State University, USA)10. ‘Secrets, silent . . . sit' in the Archives of Our Publishers: Untold Episodes from Joyce’s Italian OdysseySara Sullam (University of Milan, Italy)11. The Silence of the LoomsTim Conley (Brock University, Canada)Part 4: Translating Silence12. Silent Translation in JoyceSerenella Zanotti (Università Roma Tre, Italy)14. ‘Mute Chime and Mute Peal’: Translating Chamber MusicJolanta Wawrzycka (Radford University, USA)13. ‘Music Hath Jaws’: Translating Music and Silence in UlyssesErika Mihálycsa (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania)Coda: Modernism/Silence15. Forms of Silence in Literary Writing: James Joyce and ModernismFranca Ruggieri (Università Roma Tre, Italy)Index

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.