Joyce on Language: “enclosing myself in a tradition”

“I’d like a language which is above all languages, a language to which all will do service. I cannot express myself in English without enclosing myself in a tradition.”

— James Joyce

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1 Response to Joyce on Language: “enclosing myself in a tradition”

  1. Bryan says:

    This sounds like a confession of the anxiety of influence to me (which I think he did feel in relation to Blake and definitely in relation to Shakespeare).

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