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Joyce鈥檚 works evince a sustained fascination with those individual units of language upon which his art depends: the letters of the alphabet. Stephen Daedalus, we read in Stephen Hero, 鈥榩ut his lines together not word by word but letter by letter鈥�. The 鈥榝iery-hearted revolutionary鈥� of Joyce鈥檚 draft novel ponders 鈥榯he values of letters鈥�, 鈥榚ven permut[ing] and combin[ing] the five vowels to construct cries for primitive emotions鈥�. In this early vignette, AEIOU, best known to Joyceans for their cryptic聽appearance in the 鈥楽cylla and Charybdis鈥� episode of Ulysses, are evoked in the context of explicit allusions to Blake and Rimbaud, both idols of Joyce鈥檚 youth.

The paper will begin by exploring the聽intertextual derivation of Stephen鈥檚 辫辞别迟颈肠听experiments and the evidence of Joyce鈥檚 own聽enduring interest in the history and 鈥榬hythm鈥� of聽the alphabetic sequence. It will go on to trace聽the ramifications of this preoccupation in Ulysses鈥� as exemplified, for instance, by Stephen鈥檚聽ambition to write books 鈥榳ith letters for titles鈥櫬燼nd by the book鈥檚 manifold disruptions of ordinary spelling 鈥� and in the even more radical alphabetic chaos of Finnegans Wake. Ultimately, it will argue that Stephen鈥檚 sensitivity to the poetry of individual letters and to the rhythms of their myriad potential conjugations functions as an emblem of Joyce鈥檚 view of literature itself as a set of element equally susceptible and responsive to permutation and recombination.

Scarlett Baron is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature at University College London. She is the author of 鈥楽trandentwining Cable鈥�: Joyce, Flaubert, and Intertextuality (Oxford University Press, 2011). Her current book project, entitled A Genealogy of Intertextuality, traces intertextual theory鈥檚 core ideas and emblematic images to their antecedents in paradigm-shifting interventions in the fields of science (Darwin), philosophy (Nietzsche), and psychoanalysis (Freud).聽