I once saw Prince Paul's collage of beats, samples, and voices from all walks of life and music referred to as "Joycean" in its scope. From Wordnik.com. Reference
'It was the Joycean implications that blew me away.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of Attraction]
I suppose it is SF's equivalent of the Joycean epiphany. From Wordnik.com. [Campbell Conference Report] Reference
His own Joycean code told him he was needed someplace new. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer] Reference
The effusiveness of that ending seemed positively Joycean. From Wordnik.com. [Sex and/or Mr. Morrison | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference
That was just the price you paid for your Joycean epiphany. From Wordnik.com. [Good Books Don't Have to Be Hard] Reference
I can only speak for one movement, the Pre-Joycean Fellowship. From Wordnik.com. [At the Forefront of Madness] Reference
How very Joycean of you, Bryna - turning Fairpay into Fairplay. From Wordnik.com. [A Wordinista's Guide to Pronunciation] Reference
Either decision is defensible, and each gives a Joycean reading. From Wordnik.com. [The New 'Ulysses': Grave Matters] Reference
The sophistication of wordplay and ambiguity is positively Joycean. From Wordnik.com. [It(‘)s nothing new « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Both names are perfectly well attested, so the Joycean form should stand. From Wordnik.com. [Making the Wrong Joyce] Reference
The New Yorker has a word or two with Joyce, and traces Joycean scholars. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Considering this Joycean riposte, I have slightly reformulated the question. From Wordnik.com. [Can writers change the world? Richard Holmes and Jerry Pinkney respond] Reference
The strip had a Joycean affinity, especially in its high/low wealth of language. From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "China Cat Sunflower"] Reference
Remember during that Iowa debate when your remark was Joycean, and all you said was "Yes". From Wordnik.com. [Palin To Go On Attack Against Biden On ... Foreign Policy?] Reference
Burgess, as good a Joycean as any, regarded “Ulysses” as the greatest 20th-century novel. From Wordnik.com. [‘One of the Greatest Failures in Literature’ - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Could you speak a bit about The Rotters 'Club's thirty-three-page-sentence Joycean conclusion?. From Wordnik.com. [Fast Times at King William's High] Reference
I had hoped to continue my exploration of all things Joycean at the James Joyce Cultural Centre. From Wordnik.com. [Dublin travelogue « Knitting Clio] Reference
And even then, most critics didn't really "get" all of the musical quotation and Joycean wordplay. From Wordnik.com. [Pavement Grows Old, May Wear Trousers Rolled] Reference
And when it comes to writing style, she is Joycean in the extreme, even as her subjects are mundane. From Wordnik.com. [celestial kingdoms] Reference
Having read most of memoir overnight, I would have to say the Joycean association also holds true, however. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair's book signing in Dublin mixes Good Friday with bad Iraq] Reference
The best thing about being back in England was hearing the C-word thrown around with jolly Joycean abandon. From Wordnik.com. [My Tour of London: Classic Drag, Chien , C-s] Reference
In Dublin, start at the James Joyce Centre at 35 North Great Georges Street, the hub of all things Joycean. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Are those “Joycean” and “Chandleresque” styles themselves simply remixes of styles that came before?. From Wordnik.com. [Creative Control - Part 4] Reference
Because of the Joycean (or is it Virginia Woolfish?) nature of her novel, some agents swore she'd never sell it. From Wordnik.com. [You Need Some 'Schooling'] Reference
Of course, Delany is his own man, his own writer, but I can see why readers may reach for the Joycean comparison. From Wordnik.com. [The Future of Newspapers and Book Coverage: A Book Reviewer Roundtable - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games] Reference
Whether an editor, on argued grounds, chooses the one Joycean alternative or the other, he does not corrupt the text. From Wordnik.com. [The New 'Ulysses': Grave Matters] Reference
Any scholarly edition worth its price would try to account for differences between historical Dublin and Joycean Dublin. From Wordnik.com. [The Scandal of 'Ulysses'] Reference
Joycean scholar David Norris said that she “… is quite the best of all the myriad of Molly Blooms that I have seen.”. From Wordnik.com. [james joyce | molly bloom’s soliloquy « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
Some are so patently un-Joycean that the very fabric of Ulysses, its allusions, linguistic texture, and tone are endangered. From Wordnik.com. [The Scandal of 'Ulysses'] Reference
Dos Passos lampooned the myth and the man in a sub-Joycean manner in the “Prince of Peace” section of The 42nd Parallel. From Wordnik.com. [Rich Man’s Burden] Reference
This gives little idea of the Joycean inventiveness of the wordplay, the verbal nudges and half-echoes, of this section alone. From Wordnik.com. [Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 2: David Jones: Material Words] Reference
So when at the very end Riadni gasps and cries, "Take me higher!" he may be playing one more round of Joycean double-entendre. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
But he might have been equally careful in playing with the Joycean gesture "that the Celts contributed to Europe nothing but a whine.". From Wordnik.com. [New Oxford Irish] Reference
I realize you folks love to free associate in that delightful, stream-of-consciousness, Joycean way but, just this once, try to focus. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Still bucking Joycean syntax by page 541, the edition has a comma after Monday in this typical Bloomism, an entire paragraph in itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Scandal of 'Ulysses'] Reference
I am a Joycean today, I rub my eye patch with glee, I reread mysterious lines in the paper: Famous Critic Smashed by Giant Potato Peeler. From Wordnik.com. [Y] Reference
The couple leaned heavily on published sources to untangle Joycean knots; they cite Don Gifford's annotated Ulysses as a particular help. From Wordnik.com. ['Ulysses' in Chinese] Reference
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