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James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, And The Confines Of Autonomous Language, David M. Vassalotti
James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, And The Confines Of Autonomous Language, David M. Vassalotti
Grace Allen Scholars Theses
The act of communication is one contingent upon successful translation. Drawings, gestures, and speech are all approximations used in order to convey ideas and information. For the most part, these methods of communication serve their purpose, but there are certain ‘things’ (for lack of a better word) which cannot be communicated through any conceivable language. Each person has their own unique set of experiences and memories. Each individual mind is unique in how it interprets a word, an action, a color, a smell, etc. If a hundred people hear the word ‘dog,’ each one will envision a different image in …