Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-wg55d Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-14T00:43:19.737Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

James Joyce: A Study in Words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Joseph Prescott
Joseph Prescott*
Affiliation:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In the beginning was the Word . . .

The writings of Joyce show a progression from an early interest in words through a mature use of them to the excessive fondness of old age. In spite of variation from one work to another, the development is not always consistent and steady; sometimes there is a reversion to a former phase, sometimes an advance into a future phase. The direction, however, is unmistakable.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , March 1939 , pp. 304 - 315
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1939

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Budgen, Frank, James Joyce and the Making of ULYSSES, (New York, 1934), p. 57.— Cf. Dubliners (New York, 1926), Introduction by Padraic Colum, pp. viii–ix.Google Scholar

2 New York, 1928.

3 New York, 1934.

4 Portrait, p. 2.

5 Seân O'Faolâin, “The Cruelty and Beauty of Words,” Virginia Quarterly Review, iv (April, 1928), 221.

6 Portrait, p. 3.

7 Ibid., p. 6.

8 Ibid., p. 11.

8a Ibid., p. 60.

9 Dubliners, p. 7.

10 Portrait, pp. 126–127.

11 Ibid., p. 176.

12 Ulysses, p. 5.

13 Portrait, p. 191.

14 Ibid., pp. 193–194.

15 Ibid., pp. 207–208.

16 Ibid., p. 209.

17 Ibid., p. 221.

18 Work in Progress, in book form, has appeared in the following “Fragments“: Anna Lima Plurabelle, London, 1930; Haveth Childers Everywhere, London, 1931; Two Tales of Shem and Shaun, London, 1932; The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies, London, 1934.

19 Ulysses, p. 85.

20 Othello, i. i. 13.

21 Dubliners, p. 151.

22 Ulysses, p. 68.

23 Ibid., p. 86.

24 Ibid., p. 239.

25 Ibid., p. 245.

26 Cf. E. A. Abbott, A Shakespearian Grammar (London, 1874), p. 5.

27 Ulysses, p. 47.

28 Budgen, p. 54.

29 Stuart, Gilbert, James Joyce's ULYSSES (London, 1930), p. 39.

30 Ulysses, p. 122.

31 Ibid., p. 115.

32 Ibid., p. 116.

33 Ibid., p. 48.

34 Budgen, p. 55.

35 Ulysses, p. 388.

36 Ibid., p. 55.

37 Ibid., p. 112.

38 Ibid., pp. 535, 536, 539.

39 Ibid., p. 85.

40 Ibid., pp. 166–167.

41 Ibid., p. 175.

42 Ibid., p. 271.

43 Ibid., p. 273.

44 Plurabelle, Anna Livia, Fragment of Work in Progress (London, 1930), p. 32.Google Scholar

45 “From a Banned Writer to a Banned Singer,” Hound & Horn, ii (July, 1932), 543.

46 Portrait, pp. 67–68.

47 Huxley, Aldous, editor, The Letters of D. H. Lawrence (New York, 1932), p. 750.Google Scholar

48 Ulysses, p. 120.

49 Budgen, p. 205.

50 Slingsby, G. V., “Writes a Common Reader,” Our Exagmination Round his Fadification for Incamination of Work in Progress, Paris, 1929, p. 189.Google Scholar

51 Gilbert, p. 205.