Creativity, Playfulness and Linguistic Carnivalization in James Joyce’s


Graphological creativity (jumbled spelling)


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Graphological creativity (jumbled spelling) 
In the spirit of Joycean playfulness, the numerous spelling variations are placed into two main types: 
1) figureoutable (e.g. words whose spellings open up the meaning-making process, but which are 
typically easy to understand in terms of their component parts and whose meanings are typically 
equal to, but not greater than, the sum of those component parts; and 2) notsofigureoutable, i.e. 
words whose spellings draw attention to themselves, but whose meaning is not easily derived from 
their component parts, the majority of the later type typically exhibit properties of iconicity and 
onomatopoeia.


 Figureoutable: 
16) a. After dinner on a Sunday. Put on poor old greatgrandfather. Kraahraark! Hellohellohello 
amawfullyglad kraark awfullygladaseeagain hellohello amawf krpthsth. Remind you of the 
voice like the photograph reminds you of the face. 
b. He bared slightly his left forearm. Scrape: nearly gone. Not today anyhow. Must go back for 
that lotion. For her birthday perhaps. Junejulyaugseptember eighth. Nearly three months off. 
c. When Rutlandbaconsouthamptonshakespeare or another poet of the same name in the 
comedy of errors wrote Hamlet he was not the father of his own son….
d. […] John Wyse NolanhandsomemarriedwomanrubbedagainstwidebehindinClonskeatram
the bookseller of Sweets of Sin, Miss Dubedatandshedidbedad […] 
e. he […] was twitted with going a step farther than Michael Davitt in the striking views he at 
one time inculcated as a backtothelander, which was one reason he strongly resented the 
innuendo put upon him […] 
f. Behind him Cashel Boyle O'Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell, with stickumbrelladustcoat 
dangling […] 
The obvious question that could be posed is whether these items should be considered compounds 
along the lines of those strings exemplified in (8) above. While this might seem a logical choice, I 
have opted to treat them as creative spellings rather than creative compounds since in order to be 
interpreted they can be parsed into, and understood from, their component units and they do not 
readily create a ‘new’ meaning, i.e. there is no cumulative effect of the component parts as in (8 & 
9), which genuinely create new meanings (and, consequently, new words). 

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