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.
| 1927 New Republic 20 July 236 Joycean passages and bursts of purple lyricism. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 May 386/3 The modified ‘Joycean’ language is clever and expressive. 1935 Discovery Dec. 378/2 The verbatim description of one ‘disturbed case’ by another, with its progressive lapse into Joycian language. 1938 Partridge World of Words vi. 161 The Joyceans are artificial, but, except at the cost of a highly gymnastic cerebration, unintelligible. 1953 M. Lowry Lett. (1967) 330 Even Bernard de Voto had to interpolate that he was ‘a good Joycean—he hoped’. 1965 Times 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. 1966 Listener 2 June 805/3 The hero's name, Strumienski, would delight any Joycean: it is derived from ‘stream’. 1971 Ibid. 16 Sept. 381/2 There was a fine Joycian slide into a muck wake. 1971 Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 3 Dec. 9/2 The lecturer..led his summer school audience down the howling avenues of Joycean puns. |