Onomastic Joyce

Games Names Play
An exploration of onomastic play in James Joyces writings up to and including Ulysses, Onomastic Joyce examines in a single alphabetical listing each of roughly a thousand personal names.

Textual play, especially onomastic play, is a central element throughout James Joyces writings. Onomastic Joyce examines individually, in a single alphabetical listing with multiple cross-references, each of roughly a thousand personal names, selected for their particular textual interest, in Joyces work up to and including Ulysses, thus also involving Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

The central focus throughout is on the multifarious games names play, or can be made to play, in Joyces textual universe a universe understood here as including onomastic games Joyce certainly intended, onomastic games he may or may not have intended, and onomastic games he is ve