James Joyce's Silences

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 <i>Ulysses Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>and <i>Finnegans Wake</i> the critics present intertextual and comparative interpretations of Joyce's deployment of silence as a complex overarching narratological strategy.<br/><br/>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 <i>James Joyce's Silences</i>opens up important new avenues of scholarship on the great modernist writer.<br/><br/>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.