Alchemy And Finnegans Wake

Author : Barbara DiBernard
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0873953886

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Alchemy and Finnegans Wake by Barbara DiBernard Pdf

In the first full-length study of Joyce's direct and indirect use of alchemical allusions, DiBernard shows how an awareness of the alchemical metaphor guides a reader through the richness of Finnegans Wake. For example, the alchemical transmutation of lead into gold parallels the transmutation of the dross and commotion of ordinary life into a work of art. This study shows how the themes of Joyce's novel--death and rebirth, the conflict between physical and spiritual, incest, colors, forgery, and the reconciliation of opposites--relate to the alchemical process. The author then presents a theory, based on alchemical metaphor, on the much debated subject of Joyce's view of the artist.

Author : Joseph Campbell,Henry Morton Robinson
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781577314059

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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell,Henry Morton Robinson Pdf

Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of "Finnegans Wake" - James Joyce's masterwork, which consumed a third of his life - have given up after a few pages, dismissing it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of "Finnegans Wake." The authors break down Joyce's "unintelligible" book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. They outline the book's basic action, and then simplify -- and clarify -- its complex web of images and allusions. "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" is the latest addition to the "Collected Works of Joseph Campbell" series.

Author : Hiroko Mikami,Minako Okamuro,Naoko Yagi
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1904505236

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Ireland on Stage by Hiroko Mikami,Minako Okamuro,Naoko Yagi Pdf

Essays on Irish theatre in the second half of the twentieth century

Author : Patrick A. McCarthy
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029163444

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Critical Essays on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake by Patrick A. McCarthy Pdf

Author : Tetsumaro Hayashi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015011927731

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James Joyce by Tetsumaro Hayashi Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011676512

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel Ferrer,Sam Slote
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813042671

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Renascent Joyce by Daniel Ferrer,Sam Slote Pdf

Revival, reinvention, and regeneration: the concept of renascence pervades Joyce’s work through the inescapable presence of his literary forebears. By persistently reexamining tradition, reinterpreting his literary heritage in light of the present, and translating and re-translating from one system of signs to another, Joyce exhibits the spirit of the greatest of Renaissance writers and artists. In fact, his writing derives some of its most important characteristics from Renaissance authors, as this collection of essays shows. Though critical work has often focused on Joyce's relationship to medieval thinkers like Thomas Aquinas and Dante, Renascent Joyce examines Joyce's connection to the Renaissance in such figures as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Bruno. Joyce's own writing can itself be viewed through the rubric of renascence with the tools of genetic criticism and the many insights afforded by the translation process. Several essays in this volume examine this broader idea, investigating the rebirth and reinterpretation of Joyce's texts. Topics include literary historiography, Joyce's early twentieth-century French cultural contexts, and the French translation of Ulysses. Attentive to the current state of Joyce studies, the writers of these extensively researched essays investigate the Renaissance spirit in Joyce to offer a volume at once historically informed and innovative.

Author : Geoffrey Morrison,Matthew Tomkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1928171915

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Archaic Torso of Gumby by Geoffrey Morrison,Matthew Tomkinson Pdf

Archaic Torso of Gumby is a series of interlinked stories and essays by Geoffrey Morrison and Matthew Tomkinson that explore the gooey, prickly, sticky materials of late-capitalist pop culture, from video games to claymation to children's picture-books commissioned by oil and gas companies. Here lyric essay, personal memoir, fable, pseudohistory, and science fiction all coexist alongside more conventional short story forms. Each part reveals unlikely connections between subjects as different as a sentient wallet, a gathering of headless saints, abject descriptions of 3D-printed food, a sixteenth-century courtier who thinks he's a horse, a virtual reality religious experience, and a couple with a fetish involving crustaceans. By turns cerebral, goofy, and heartfelt, Archaic Torso of Gumby is a delirious rabbit hole for the adventurous reader.

Author : William S. Yellow Robe Jr.
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781438478630

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Restless Spirits by William S. Yellow Robe Jr. Pdf

Finalist for the 2020 ForeWord INDIE Book of the Year in the Multicultural Adult Fiction Category Restless Spirits is a collection of previously unpublished plays by contemporary Assiniboine playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr. Including one full-length and seven one-act plays, this book reflects one of the author's most creative and productive periods in his career. Selected by Yellow Robe, in consultation with editor Jace Weaver, the plays reveal the range of Yellow Robe's writing from tragedies to farce. They are unified by their supernatural themes or significant elements, including Wood Bones, his most recent and highly successful full-length play. Weaver's introduction says that the works in this collection clearly demonstrate that Yellow Robe is not just a great American Indian playwright, but a great American playwright in the company of David Mamet, Lynn Nottage, and Wallace Shawn. Renowned American Indian playwright Hanay L. Geiogamah provides a foreword and calls this volume "a real gift to the American Indian theater—and to theater, more generally."

Author : Roula-Maria Dib,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032174196

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Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature by Roula-Maria Dib,Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature argues for the centrality of Carl Jung's theory of individuation and alchemy in modernist poetics. Through analysis of the uses of a mythic method in modernist literary works, the book develops a related alchemical model which serves to expand understanding of modernist uses of language. The book is an innovative exploration of modernist literary creativity under a Jungian lens, spanning both the literary and scholarly Jungian field. The literary works of Hilda Doolittle, James Joyce and W.B Yeats are read in the light of Jung's central theme of an 'alchemical marriage' with attempts at developing a related alchemical model, a Jungian poetics, which serves to expand a reader's understanding of modernist uses of language. This provides a fresh new lens through which modernist literature is viewed and seeks to revaluate the role of Jung in the humanities, namely in the field of modernist literature, an area from which Jung has long been shunned. This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of literature, modernism, psychoanalysis, gender studies, Jungian psychology, depth psychology, literary theory, and cultural studies. .

Author : Roula-Maria Dib
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429603129

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Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature by Roula-Maria Dib Pdf

Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature argues for the centrality of Carl Jung’s theory of individuation and alchemy in modernist poetics. Through analysis of the uses of a mythic method in modernist literary works, the book develops a related alchemical model which serves to expand understanding of modernist uses of language. The book is an innovative exploration of modernist literary creativity under a Jungian lens, spanning both the literary and scholarly Jungian field. The literary works of Hilda Doolittle, James Joyce and W.B Yeats are read in the light of Jung’s central theme of an ‘alchemical marriage’ with attempts at developing a related alchemical model, a Jungian poetics, which serves to expand a reader’s understanding of modernist uses of language. This provides a fresh new lens through which modernist literature is viewed and seeks to revaluate the role of Jung in the humanities, namely in the field of modernist literature, an area from which Jung has long been shunned. This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of literature, modernism, psychoanalysis, gender studies, Jungian psychology, depth psychology, literary theory, and cultural studies. .

Author : Carol Loeb Shloss
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466832701

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Lucia Joyce by Carol Loeb Shloss Pdf

"Whatever spark or gift I possess has been transmitted to Lucia and it has kindled a fire in her brain." —James Joyce, 1934 Most accounts of James Joyce's family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden. But in this important new book, Carol Loeb Shloss reveals a different, more dramatic truth: her father loved Lucia, and they shared a deep creative bond. Lucia was born in a pauper's hospital and educated haphazardly across Europe as her penniless father pursued his art. She wanted to strike out on her own and in her twenties emerged, to Joyce's amazement, as a harbinger of expressive modern dance in Paris. He described her then as a wild, beautiful, "fantastic being" whose mind was "as clear and as unsparing as the lightning." The family's only reader of Joyce, she was a child of the imaginative realms her father created, and even after emotional turmoil wrought havoc with her and she was hospitalized in the 1930s, he saw in her a life lived in tandem with his own. Though most of the documents about Lucia have been destroyed, Shloss painstakingly reconstructs the poignant complexities of her life—and with them a vital episode in the early history of psychiatry, for in Joyce's efforts to help her he sought the help of Europe's most advanced doctors, including Jung. In Lucia's world Shloss has also uncovered important material that deepens our understanding of Finnegans Wake, the book that redefined modern literature.

Author : Alexander Roob
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 3822850381

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Alchemy & Mysticism by Alexander Roob Pdf

A classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu. In the 1850s, a group of settlers established a community at Waipu in the northern part of New Zealand. They were led there by a stern preacher, Norman McLeod. The community had followed him from Scotland in 1817 to found a settlement in Nova Scotia, then subsequently to New Zealand via Australia. Their incredible journeys actually happened, and in this winner of the New Zealand Book Awards, Fiona Kidman breathes life and contemporary relevance into the facts by creating a remarkable fictional story of three women entangled in the migrations - Isabella, her daughter Annie and granddaughter Maria. McLeod's harsh leadership meant that anyone who ran counter to him had to live a life of secrets. The 'secrets' encapsulated the spirit of these women in their varied reactions to McLeod's strict edicts and connect the past to the present and future.

Author : Kevin Birmingham
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101585641

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The Most Dangerous Book by Kevin Birmingham Pdf

Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction “The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura performance.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times James Joyce’s big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of Ulysses was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. Joyce, along with some of the most important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. The Most Dangerous Book tells the remarkable story surrounding Ulysses, from the first stirrings of Joyce’s inspiration in 1904 to the book’s landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933. Written for ardent Joyceans as well as novices who want to get to the heart of the greatest novel of the twentieth century, The Most Dangerous Book is a gripping examination of how the world came to say Yes to Ulysses.

Author : John Colm O'Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015012873199

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Joyce's Use of Colors by John Colm O'Sullivan Pdf