Type of Document	Thesis
Author	McFeaters, Andrew V.
URN	etd-08182004-103357
Title	Signs of Intelligence: The Self-Aware Textuality of James Joyce
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title S. E. Gontarski Committee Chair Andrew Epstein Committee Member R. M. Berry Committee Member
Keywords	James Joyce
Date of Defense	2003-12-01
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract A discourse on the language of James Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, this thesis engages the roles of particular words in these texts for the purpose of demonstrating Joyce’s later poetics. Often these words communicate their own senses, perform their own definitions, and these senses and definitions amount to the subversion of stable meaning. Ultimately these words are a part of language games and Wakean dialectics which constantly outmaneuver reader expectations while simultaneously promoting those expectations. In a manner of speaking, these texts read their readers and, for every hermeneutic a reader attempts to graft onto these texts, the texts say with a smirk, “Yes. I’ve thought of that already. Guess again.”
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