Rewriting Joyces Europe The Politics of Language and Visual Design 1st Edition by Tekla Mecsnober ISBN 0813066980 9780813066981

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ISBN 10: 0813066980

ISBN 13: 978-0813066981

Author:  Tekla Mecsnóber 

Rewriting Joyce’s Europe: The Politics of Language and Visual Design 1st Edition: Rewriting Joyce’s Europe 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 Wars I and II. Looking beyond the commonly studied Irish historical context of these works, Tekla Mecsnóber calls for more attention to their place among broader cultural and political processes of the interwar era.

Published in 1922 and 1939, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake display Joyce’s keen interest in naming, language choice, and visual aspects of writing. Mecsnóber shows the connections between these literary explorations and the real-world remapping of national borders that was often accompanied by the imposition of new place-names, languages, and alphabets. In addition to drawing on extensive research in newspaper archives as well as genetic criticism, Mecsnóber provides the first comprehensive analysis of meanings suggested by the typographic design of early editions of Joyce’s texts.

Mecsnóber argues that Joyce’s fascination with the visual nature of writing not only shows up as a motif in his books but also can be seen in the writer’s active role within European and North American print culture as he influenced the design of his published works. This illuminating study highlights the enduring―and often surprising―political stakes in choices regarding the use and visual representation of languages.

A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles

 

Rewriting Joyce’s Europe: The Politics of Language and Visual Design 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 The Politics of Names in Ulysses: Managing the “Memory of Migrations”
2 The Politics of Language Choice in Finnegans Wake: National Languages and Neutral Idioms
3 The Politics of Alphabets in Ulysses and the Wake: “Diacritic Aspirations” and “Servile Letters”
4 Ulysses and the Transformation of Typography: The Ineluctable Modernity of the Visible
5 Finnegans Wake and the Cultural Economy of Typography: “Its Face Is Its Fortune”
6 transition and the Politics of Typography: “Enveloping Facts”
Conclusion: “Loitering in the Past” with Joyce

 

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