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This essay examines defining words as a dramatic strategy in Joyce's literature, suggesting deeper meanings.
Joyce's works repeatedly feature the act of defining a word as pivotal dramatic event. This essay explores the underpinnings and implications of this specifically dramatic strategy and connects it with the trajectory of Joyce's oeuvre. Definition, as Joyce comes to understand it, is always provisional, contestable, and situational.
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