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One Long Blue Streak
Joyce and Swearing
Series: - European Joyce Studies, Volume: 34
- European Joyce Studies, Volume: 34
One Long Blue Streak traces the unstoppable flow of indecent, profane, and off-colour language coursing through James Joyces work, inviting readers to decode and delight in the bawdry and blasphemy that established Joyce as one of the notoriously obscene writers in the canon. From the elided vulgarity of Dubliners to the anarchic wordplay of Finnegans Wake, Joyce seized upon the power of swearing, cursing, and so-called foul languagesacred, sexual, and scatological aliketo create a playful space in which speech is still free.
Frances Ilmberger is a lecturer at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and the archivist of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation in Switzerland. Her most recent book is an edited volume, Ulysses Polytropos: Essays on James Joyce by Fritz Senn (European Joyce Studies, 2022).
Casey Lawrence completed her doctorate in English literature at Trinity College Dublin in 2023. She organised the 2022 Wilde and Joyce Symposium and co-edited the resultant essay collection, Calibans Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, Open Library of Humanities Journal (202425).
Casey Lawrence completed her doctorate in English literature at Trinity College Dublin in 2023. She organised the 2022 Wilde and Joyce Symposium and co-edited the resultant essay collection, Calibans Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, Open Library of Humanities Journal (202425).
Performative and Potent: Joyces Use of the Greek Language
âTrisevgeni Bilia
12 Swearing by Superstition
âWilliam Brockman
13 The Maledictions of Lousyfear: Cursing in Holy Ireland
âChristine ONeill
14 Invoking the Name of God: Praying, Swearing, and Gossiping in Cyclops
âValrie Bnjam
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