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A text is deemed Joycean when it is reminiscent of the writings of James Joyce, particularly Ulysses or Finnegans Wake. Joycean fiction exhibits a high degree of verbal play, usually within the framework of stream of consciousness. Works that are "Joycean" may also be technically eclectic, employing multiple technical shifts as a form of ...
This technique is a joycean version of the free indirect style and is related to the very discussed "objectivity" of the author. According to Kenner, «This is apparently something new in fiction, the normally neutral narrative vocabulary pervaded by a little cloud of idioms which a character might use if he were managing the narrative.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic.He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
Finnegans Wake is a novel by the Irish writer James Joyce.It is known for its allusive and experimental style and its reputation as one of the most difficult works in literature.
Created in 1985 on the basis of the private collection of the eminent Swiss Joycean scholar Fritz Senn, [6] who was the Foundation's permanent head until 2022, [7] it is an archive, documentation center, specialized library, literary museum, as well as a meeting place for researchers and reading groups, and has established itself as an ...
Joycean or modernist epiphany has its roots in nineteenth-century lyric poetry, especially the Wordsworthian "spots of time," [3] as well as the sudden spiritual insights that formed the basis of traditional spiritual autobiography. [4]
Pomes Penyeach contains a number of Joycean neologisms ("rosefrail", "moongrey" and "sindark", for example) created by melding two words into a new compound. The word "love" appears thirteen times in this collection of thirteen short poems (and the word "heart" appears almost as frequently) in a variety of contexts.
Sweny's Pharmacy, or F. W. Sweny & Co. Ltd. is a former Victorian-era pharmacy, now a new and used book store, a Joycean cultural centre, hosting daily group readings of Joyce’s work and supporting new aspiring writers, in Dublin, Ireland most notable for appearing in James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses.