[lit-ideas] Joycian Wortstellung
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:52:36 EDT
1971 Ibid. 16 Sept. 381/2 There was a fine Joycian slide into a muck wake.
I propose to use "Joycian" for the language and keep "Joycean" for _other_
uses. It's not obscure enough -- but will do?
The other one (entry in the OED) citing Finnegans within the etymology
section is 'pandemia', below.
What a genius of a man, Joyce. People in Argentina don't necessarily like
him, because, they say, 'he confuses into what's right and wrong in the use of
the Queen's English".
It's so fascinating to explore what he must have had in mind when he
_coined_ so many words.
Cheers,
JL
[< ancient Greek of or belonging to the whole people (see _PANDEMIC_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/cgi/crossref?query_type=advsearch&qu
eryword=Finnegans+Wake&first=1&max_to_show=10&search_spec=simple:deri&order=ab
&return_set=entries&sort_type=alpha&search_id=m22q-gWS3Mu-17409&control_no=501
70213&result_place=1&xrefword=pandemic) adj. and n.) + _-IA_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/cgi/crossref?query_type=advsearch&queryword=F
innegans+Wake&first=1&max_to_show=10&search_spec=simple:deri&order=ab&return_s
et=entries&sort_type=alpha&search_id=m22q-gWS3Mu-17409&control_no=50170213&res
ult_place=1&xrefword=-ia&ps=suffix&homonym_no=1) suffix1. Cf. post-classical
Latin pandemius adj. (in febris pandemia) (1769 or earlier). Cf. _PANDEMIC_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/cgi/crossref?query_type=advse
arch&queryword=Finnegans+Wake&first=1&max_to_show=10&search_spec=simple:deri&o
rder=ab&return_set=entries&sort_type=alpha&search_id=m22q-gWS3Mu-17409&control
_no=50170213&result_place=1&xrefword=pandemic&ps=n.) n., _PANDEMY_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/cgi/crossref?query_type=advsearch&quer
yword=Finnegans+Wake&first=1&max_to_show=10&search_spec=simple:deri&order=ab&r
eturn_set=entries&sort_type=alpha&search_id=m22q-gWS3Mu-17409&control_no=50170
213&result_place=1&xrefword=pandemy&ps=n.) n.
The following prob. shows independent borrowing of ancient Greek the whole
people:
1934 _J. JOYCE_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-j.html#j-joyce)
Finnegans Wake 263 Old Whiteman self, the blighty
blotchy, beyond the bays, hope of ostrogothic and ottomanic faith converters,
despair of Pandemia's postwartem plastic surgeons?]
----
1927 New Republic 20 July 236 Joycean passages and bursts of purple
lyricism. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 May 386/3 The modified ‘Joycean’ language
is
clever and expressive. 1935 Discovery Dec. 378/2 The verbatim description of
one ‘disturbed case’ by another, with its progressive lapse into Joycian
language. 1938 _PARTRIDGE_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-p.html#partridge)
World of Words vi. 161 The Joyceans are
artificial, but, except at the cost of a highly gymnastic cerebration,
unintelligible.
1953 _M. LOWRY_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-l2.html#m-lowry)
Lett. (1967) 330 Even Bernard de Voto had to
interpolate that he was ‘a good Even Behe hoped’. 1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 11
Mar. 199/3
This particular ‘deviation’ has a rather Joycean flavour to it, as it
combines the meaning and the effect of exorbitance in one word. 1966 Listener
2
June 805/3 The hero's name, Strumienski, would delight any Joycean: it is
derived from ‘stream’. 1971 Ibid. 16 Sept. 381/2 There was a fine Joycian
slide
into a muck wake. 1971 Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 3 Dec. 9/2 The
lecturer..led his summer school audience down the howling avenues of Joycean
puns.
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