Names and Naming in Joyce

Culleton, Claire A.

ISBN 10: 0299143805 / ISBN 13: 9780299143800

Published by Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Names and Naming in Joyce
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299143805
• ISBN 13: 9780299143800
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

By examining names and naming patterns from ""Stephen Hero"" and ""Finnegans Wake"", this text discusses what they reveal about Joyce's character and practice as a writer and explores their historical, literary and cultural implications, stressing that naming is not only a creative act.

Review

"Claire A. Culleton's "Names and Naming in Joyce" is an immensely stimulating and engagingly readable work. Written with great verve, an engaging sense of humor, and an obviously impassioned interest in its subject, it demonstrates a confident mastery both of Joyce's work and of the scholarship on Joyce, consolidating a great deal of scattered research and integrating it with its own original insights to advance a coherent, unexpectedly fresh, and compelling argument about the ways in which Joyce thought about, selected, and used names in his fiction. Almost every major critic of Joyce has somewhere passingly acknowledged Joyce's fascination with names, but no one outside of this work has yet so systematically explored it."--John Bishop, University of California, Berkeley
Claire A. Culleton s "Names and Naming in Joyce" is an immensely stimulating and engagingly readable work. Written with great verve, an engaging sense of humor, and an obviously impassioned interest in its subject, it demonstrates a confident mastery both of Joyce s work and of the scholarship on Joyce, consolidating a great deal of scattered research and integrating it with its own original insights to advance a coherent, unexpectedly fresh, and compelling argument about the ways in which Joyce thought about, selected, and used names in his fiction. Almost every major critic of Joyce has somewhere passingly acknowledged Joyce s fascination with names, but no one outside of this work has yet so systematically explored it. John Bishop, University of California, Berkeley
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Claire A. Culleton s Names and Naming in Joyce is an immensely stimulating and engagingly readable work. Written with great verve, an engaging sense of humor, and an obviously impassioned interest in its subject, it demonstrates a confident mastery both of Joyce s work and of the scholarship on Joyce, consolidating a great deal of scattered research and integrating it with its own original insights to advance a coherent, unexpectedly fresh, and compelling argument about the ways in which Joyce thought about, selected, and used names in his fiction. Almost every major critic of Joyce has somewhere passingly acknowledged Joyce s fascination with names, but no one outside of this work has yet so systematically explored it. John Bishop, University of California, Berkeley
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