Title: Rewriting Joyce's Europe : the politics of language and visual design /
Authors: Mecsnóber, Tekla; Knowles, Sebastian D. G.
Year: 2021
Subjects: Joyce, James, Criticism and interpretation History.; Joyce, James,; Civilization Irish influences; Intellectual life; Europe Civilization Irish influences; Europe Intellectual life; Europe
Abstract: "This book sheds light on how the text and physical design of James Joyce's two most challenging works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, reflect changes that transformed Europe between World War I and II"--
Contents: Introduction: Rewriting Joyce's Europe -- The Politics of Names in Ulysses: Managing the "Memory of Migrations" -- The Politics of Language Choice in Finnegans Wake: National Languages and Neutral Idioms -- The Politics of Alphabets in Ulysses and the Wake: "Diacritic Aspirations" and "Servile Letters" -- Ulysses and the Transformation of Typography: The Ineluctable Modernity of the Visible -- Finnegans Wake and the Cultural Economy of Typography: "Its Face Is Its Fortune" -- transition and the Politics of Typography: "Enveloping Facts" -- Conclusion: "Loitering in the Past" with Joyce