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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (1): 143–164.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Ruben Borg This essay discusses the portmanteau as a privileged rhetorical figure in Finnegans Wake . It illustrates the manner in which Joyce's use of the portmanteau enables him to establish a nonmathematical and nondialectical relation between the work's minimal structural element...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 505–511.
Published: 01 December 2023
... , addressing a wide array of items from domains as diverse as language (e.g., portmanteau terms and oxymorons), poetry (e.g., contemporary hybrid American poetics), botany (e.g., cross-pollinated plants such as sweet corn or hybrid grape), technology (e.g., a hybrid vehicle or computer), art (e.g., hybrid...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 231–260.
Published: 01 June 2023
... visual aesthetics support Utsugi's reflections on his aging, but the novel's form also impacts on its depiction of the aging experience for Utsugi. The Diary is what Julia Novak describes as a “portmanteau narrative” which disrupts “the chronology of a story” as well as “its coherence and internal...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (1): 17–50.
Published: 01 March 2010
... and the metaphysical in Herman Melville’s Ishmael, and the conflation (even in a single portmanteau word) of ancient, scholarly, local, and official lan- guages in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake: these characteristic world-literary devices clearly grow out of commercial and cultural exchanges distinctive...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 221–262.
Published: 01 March 2000
... The vastest modern instance of such nonce writing is James Joyce’s endlessly productive lyrical fiction, Finnegans Wake. Joyce’s nonce words are often treated as portmanteau words—on the model of Lewis Carroll’s ‘‘slithy’’ (lithe...