James Joyce's Italian Connection: The Poetics of the Word

8vo. xi, 140 pp, introduction, 1. Joyce and Contemporary Italian Writers; 2. Joyce and Scioglilinguagnolo, 3. Hitce and D'Annunzio: The Poetics of the Word; 4. Joyce and Italian Futurism: An Eye for an I; notes, bibliography, index. First Edition, 1989. Light-green cloth with black lettering to spine. "When Joyce arrived in Italy in 1904 he was already fluent in the language of his undisputed idol, Dante. He immediately devoted himself to establishing an intimate rapport with the 'lingua viva', the living source of speech which influenced all his masterworks. No effort has previously been made to determine how Joyce used Italian to develop his writing techniques. The book fills this void by showing how Italian, far from being a mere addition to Joyce's multilingual repertoire, helped him shape his unique stylistic mode. The author shows how Joyce literally appropriated Italian to serve his purpose. He did so not only through the constant use of the spoken language but also through the