The Wikipedia page on Joyce was actually kind of useless for telling me what characterises Joyce's writing (thematically or stylistically). Any chance you could summarise?
Scary challenge! His early stuff is fairly traditional, much what you'd expect from a young Irishman with his eyes open. The later books, Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, are characterised byword play - invented words, puns, stream of consciousness, portmanteau words. It's a very dense style, and I love it to bits, but some folk (well, most folk) find it hard to unpack.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
--_Introibo ad altare Dei_.
Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:
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Date: 2010-07-13 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-13 09:35 pm (UTC)His early stuff is fairly traditional, much what you'd expect from a young Irishman with his eyes open.
The later books, Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, are characterised byword play - invented words, puns, stream of consciousness, portmanteau words. It's a very dense style, and I love it to bits, but some folk (well, most folk) find it hard to unpack.
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Date: 2010-07-13 09:43 pm (UTC)Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
--_Introibo ad altare Dei_.
Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:
--Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit!
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Date: 2010-07-13 10:15 pm (UTC)