2017
DOI: 10.5463/ejlw.6.217
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Finding a Tongue: Autobiography Beyond Definition

Abstract: In EnglIshThe outset of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man presents a stage of life and language that is commonly evoked and, at the same time, systematically avoided in autobiographies as well as theoretical approaches to language: infancy. This textual strategy refers back to Augustine's Confessiones, one of the most canonical autobiographies, reading it as a mainstay for an unconventional hypothesis: Rather that understanding infancy as an early stage of, or even before, language, Joyce expound… Show more

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