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Milesi, Laurent, Ed. James Joyce and the Difference of Language.(Book Review)

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20050322
Author:McCourt, John

MILESI, LAURENT, ED. James Joyce and the Difference of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Xiii + 232 pp. $60.00.

James Joyce and the Difference of Language is a curate's egg of a book. Good in parts. In fact, almost all of it is worthwhile although more than a few of the essays, for all their critical competence, would have better belonged to another collection as they seem at odds with the volume's language focus. I am referring in particular to Beryl Schlossman's "Madonnas of Modernism" and Diane Elam's "Theoretical Modelling: Joyce's Women on Display," ...

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