-
Inverted Commas, Unreality, and Chiasmus in “Aeolus”
- James Joyce Quarterly
- The University of Tulsa
- Volume 51, Number 4, Summer 2014
- pp. 613-630
- 10.1353/jjq.2016.0004
- Article
- Additional Information
This article links Joyce’s objections to the quotation mark with his rejection of realist representation. In Theodor Adorno’s theory of the modern novel, the realist approach to language is the same as journalism’s: both suppress writing’s mediating role. In fact, for Adorno, as its entertainment value grew, journalism rendered the realist novel obsolete. Novels,