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Joycean, a. and n.|ˈdʒɔɪsɪən|
Also Joycian.
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Irish writer James Joyce (1882–1941), or his work.
B. n. An admirer or follower of Joyce.
1927New Republic 20 July 236 Joycean passages and bursts of purple lyricism. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 26 May 386/3 The modified ‘Joycean’ language is clever and expressive. 1935Discovery Dec. 378/2 The verbatim description of one ‘disturbed case’ by another, with its progressive lapse into Joycian language. 1938Partridge World of Words vi. 161 The Joyceans are artificial, but, except at the cost of a highly gymnastic cerebration, unintelligible. 1953M. Lowry Lett. (1967) 330 Even Bernard de Voto had to interpolate that he was ‘a good Joycean—he hoped’. 1965Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Mar. 199/3 This particular ‘deviation’ has a rather Joycean flavour to it, as it combines the meaning and the effect of exorbitance in one word. 1966Listener 2 June 805/3 The hero's name, Strumienski, would delight any Joycean: it is derived from ‘stream’. 1971Ibid. 16 Sept. 381/2 There was a fine Joycian slide into a muck wake. 1971Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 3 Dec. 9/2 The lecturer..led his summer school audience down the howling avenues of Joycean puns. |