A couple of nice expressions I picked up from Steven Connor within the following passage:
The 'work of Joyce' is more than just a particular collection of texts; it is a generative code, a discursive epidemic, a chain letter. To write about Joyce's work, to add another act of reading to this immense unfolding, is a humbling, exhilarating, intimidating thing. Inevitably, any such reading will be given, conscisouly or unconsciously, to reflect on the nature and implications of the extravagance (literally extra-vagari, to wander outside), at once amicable and appetitive, of Joycean reading and writing, a writing that seems so strangely and stubbornly to resist reduction to an œuvre, or mere 'body of work.'
(James Joyce, 2)
