Article: Tap, tap. Jingle. Tap: form is content in "The Sirens." (James Joyce's 'Ulysses')

In the essay, "Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce," in Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, Samuel Beckett argues that Joyce, in Finnegans Wake, uses a direct form of discourse, a type of communication predating poetry, metaphor, and writing, communication recollecting, as Giambattista Vico saw it, primitive gesture: pointing to the sea to communicate "sea," This direct discourse predates, as well, "prelingual symbols" from which Latin root words developed. In this direct expression or discourse, Beckett argues, form and content are inseparable.

"Mr. Joyce has desophisticated language" (15) Beckett writes, so that for Joyce, ...

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