Joyce, Joyceans and the Rhetoric of Citation

James Joyce never used quotation marks, calling them
perverted
and
unreal . This book springs from that aversion, presenting an account of citation from the ancient world forward and tracing Joyce’s transgressive relation to that history from
Memorabilia
to
Finnegan’s Wake . The author argues Joyce’s rejection of the mark signals a wider and deeper rejection of the system it implements, one in which the subject/object separation presents an orderly containment of language and readers. She locates the rhetoric of quotation at four places crucial to contemporary debates: authorship, feminism, historiography, and modern criticism.