THE BODY WRITING: JOYCE’S PEN
In: Joyce, "Penelope" and the Body
Author:
DEREK ATTRIDGE
DEREK ATTRIDGE
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Abstract
In this essay the author enquires into the working practices and methods by which Joyce operated as a writer during the time he wrote “Penelope”. Taking the lead from a comment by Jacques Derrida about “le corps écrivant” and the almost “fetishistic” aspects of this private situation, he enquires into the physical situation of the writing during the process of composition, in a thorough empirical assembly of facts derived from biographical sources and passages in letters and even the texts where many aspects of the process are revealed.