Even Muldoon's fans find some of the “difficulty” of this pyrotechnical erudition too playful, suspecting him of a Joycean desire to “keep the professors busy”.
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Joycean
//ˈd͡ʒɔɪsɪ.ən//
Synonyms for "joycean" (1 found)
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Translations
16 translations across 14 languages.
Czech
1 entries- joyceovský adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
Estonian
1 entries- Joyce'lik adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
Finnish
1 entries- joycelainen adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
French
1 entries- joycien adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
German
1 entries- joyceanisch adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
Greek
1 entries- τζοϋσικός adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
Hungarian
1 entries- joyce-i adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
Italian
2 entries- gioissiano adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
- joyciano adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
Polish
1 entries- joyce'owski adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
Portuguese
1 entries- joyceano adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
Russian
1 entries- джо́йсовский adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- džojsovskī adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
- џојсовскӣ adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
Slovak
1 entries- joyceovský adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
Spanish
1 entries- joyceano adj (pertaining to James Joyce or his writings)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Around the world these days there are thousands of Joycean scholars who make their living parsing and reparsing the great man who, perhaps much to his chagrin if he were alive, has become a symbol of all things Irish to millions.
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Jimson is a total nonconformist and his god is William Blake, whom he quotes endlessly in his somewhat Joycean interior monologues.
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But [Richard] Ellmann himself was a Joycean avant la lettre.
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