adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Joycean
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He writes in the Joycean tradition: free-flowing, unhindered and specific.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
At 3,449 pages, the novel’s plot can be simply described as a Joycean voyage: A woman named Vera Cartwheel goes in search of her long-lost nanny, Miss MacIntosh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
Born and raised in Dublin, Liam Cunningham speaks in Joycean streams of consciousness that often have no discernible beginning, middle or end.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
The first project brought together Palestinian and Syrian refugees, artists, scholars and a civil engineer to talk about the Joycean themes of migration, memory, histories and political and urban landscapes.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2022
One can imagine a kind of Joycean superauthor, capable of any style, turning out spine-tingling suspense novels, massively researched biographies, and nuanced analyses of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
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