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Rewriting Joyce's Europe : the politics of language and visual design
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Rewriting Joyce's Europe : the politics of language and visual design / Tekla Mecsnóber ; foreword by Sebastian D. G. Knowles.
ISBN
9780813066981
0813066980
9780813057880
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2021]
Physical Description
xvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Mecsnóber, Tekla, Rewriting Joyce's Europe 1st. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2021
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 25, 2021
Series
The Florida James Joyce series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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