Bloomsbury James Joyce's Silences

In this landmark book, leading international scholars from North America, Europe and the UK explore silence in the writings of James Joyce. Examining all of Joyces major works, including Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake, the book studies the many different roles that silence plays in Joyces texts: aesthetic, rhetorical, textual and linguistic. Exploring the many dimensions of what is revealed in the absences that fill his writing, James Joyces Silences opens up important new avenues of scholarship on the great modernist writer. Review 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. ― Journal of Modern LiteratureRichness of stimuli and suggestions, as well as textual cues and evidences, characterise this volume, which proves a fascinating and useful reading for Joycean scholars. ― Estudios Irlandeses About the Author JolantaWawrzycka is Professor of English at Radford University, USA. She is the editor of Reading Joycean Temporalities(2018) and co-editor of Portals ofRecovery (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).