TY - JOUR AU - Tompkins, Phillip K. AB - The rhetorical challenge of the situation facing me here is not so much a problem of producing one more explication of Joycean texts as it is of relating the work of this great Irish writer Presidential Address to the concerns of members of the InInternational ternational Communication AssociaCommunication tion. I take it then :is my general purAssociation pose to show such .a relationship, and I San Francisco, CA USA hasten to my thesis: Joyce captured forMay 28,1989 ever in his novels the city of Dublin of his boyhood and by means of his proby Phillip K. Tompkins found observations on the daily life of this city's citizens taught us some lesShortly after the shock of the election sons about human communication that that put me in this position wore off I are worth relearning. Moreover, his realized the timing was bad. One year work was the inspiration for some conlater and I could have delivered this ad- temporary communication theorists dress in Dublin, Ireland, not San Fran(McLuhan and Ong) whose work you cisco, USA. Not that San Francisco is probably know, even though you may a bad city for a presidential address. not realize how much and in TI - Invitation to ICA ‘90: Rejoyce in Dublin JO - Communication Theory DO - 10.1111/j.1468-2885.1991.tb00003.x DA - 1991-02-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/invitation-to-ica-90-rejoyce-in-dublin-0IftOtbxp5 SP - 36 VL - 1 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -