Joyce’s writing makes the unpresentable perceptible in the signifier itself

Evidence

Joyce allows the unpresentable to become perceptible in his writing itself, in the signifier. The whole range of available narrative and even stylistic operators is put into play without concern for the unity of the whole, and new operators are tried. The grammar and vocabulary of literary language are no longer accepted as given; rather, they appear as academic forms, as rituals originating in piety (as Nietzsche said) which prevent the unpresentable from being put forward. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 508

Categorization

• XREF: The Joyce example is the contrast case Jameson later re-reads differently in his own postmodernism. — connects to: Proust alludes to the unpresentable through time while Joyce does so through writing itself — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 506; Modernist literature works as a perception instrument whose form survives even rejected insights — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1839

Broader Connections

• Modernist literature works as a perception instrument whose form survives even rejected insights #exemplifies (0.85) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1839