Joycean
- noun
- /ˈdʒɔɪsiən/
- Literature
- Another Joycean, William Faulkner, turned a tiny, imagined Mississippi county into a densely peopled world, saturated by local and family history.
- Joycean influence
- Joycean aspect
Examples
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Certainly, the cultural views of most contemporary Americans and Europeans are more Joycean than Herzlian; they are comfortable with diversity and draw the correct conclusions from the debacle of Nazism.
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Yet another product from the prolific imagination of the great novelist and Joycean, Anthony Burgess, this text resists all categorization.
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Should we keep a set of Joyceans in a secret location in reserve?
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One prominent Joycean has written that being in Dublin on Bloomsday is "like being in Jerusalem on Easter Sunday."
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Nevertheless, the Joycean aspect of the fragment is rather the play on various meanings that are connected to each other at multiple levels.
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This summer will see the densest concentration of Joyceans in the history of the world, the pure ground-stomping statistical apotheosis of the herd.
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A Joycean often finds deep meaning in the intricate narratives of James Joyce's works.
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Many Joycean scholars analyze the themes present in Joyce's groundbreaking novels.
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The group of Joycean enthusiasts gathers annually to celebrate the author's literary contributions.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Joycean is formed from James Joyce and the ending -an, which means 'a person connected to' or 'from', as in Shakespearean. So a Joycean is a person who is 'connected to' Joyce, meaning a fan, reader, or scholar of his work.