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A text is deemed Joycean when it is reminiscent of the writings of James Joyce, particularly Ulysses or Finnegans Wake. The characteristics usually alluded to in employing this term are a vast range of style and technique (particularly symbolism and stream-of-consciousness), and an inclination towards somewhat sordid subject-matter. More than anything, however, Joycean has come to denote a form of extreme verbal inventiveness which tends to push the English language towards, and in the case of Finnegans Wake beyond, the limits of readability.
This is one of a whole series of adjectives based on authors' names, such as Brechtian, Kafkaesque, Orwellian and Pinteresque.
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