This volume provides a sharp and well documented examination of “the role of names, languages, ortography, and typography in various rewritings of Joyce’s Europe and Joyce’s work during the writer’s life” (p.7). The book offers therefore a dual perspective: a gaze into Joyce’s own acts of rewriting and an enquiry into the historical circumstances of these rewritings. Shifting its attention from an Irish to a European dimension, this study is in many respects a cultural history of Europe between the two World Wars, centered around two seminal works by James Joyce (Ulysses and Finnegans Wake); their preoccupation with language, identity and linguistics, their editorial vicissitudes and their cultural reception during Joyce’s lifetime.
Tekla Mecsnóber, Rewriting Joyce’s Europe: The Politics of Language and Visual Design (Davide Crosara) / Crosara, Davide. - In: JOYCE STUDIES IN ITALY. - ISSN 2281-373X. - 25:(2023), pp. 241-244.
Tekla Mecsnóber, Rewriting Joyce’s Europe: The Politics of Language and Visual Design (Davide Crosara)
davide crosara
2023
Abstract
This volume provides a sharp and well documented examination of “the role of names, languages, ortography, and typography in various rewritings of Joyce’s Europe and Joyce’s work during the writer’s life” (p.7). The book offers therefore a dual perspective: a gaze into Joyce’s own acts of rewriting and an enquiry into the historical circumstances of these rewritings. Shifting its attention from an Irish to a European dimension, this study is in many respects a cultural history of Europe between the two World Wars, centered around two seminal works by James Joyce (Ulysses and Finnegans Wake); their preoccupation with language, identity and linguistics, their editorial vicissitudes and their cultural reception during Joyce’s lifetime.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
