Finnegans Wake

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1311 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027236442

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FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce Pdf

This eBook edition of "FINNEGANS WAKE" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is significant for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most audacious works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, Finnegans Wake was Joyce's final work. The book discusses, in an unorthodox fashion, the Earwicker family, comprising the father HCE, the mother ALP, and their three children Shem the Penman, Shaun the Postman, and Issy. James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.

Author : Eric McLuhan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802009239

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The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake by Eric McLuhan Pdf

The study establishes the nature and aims of Finnegans Wake as Menippean satire and interprets the Wake in that light. McLuhan examines Joyce's use of language, and in particular his use of ten hundred-lettered words (thunderclaps).

Author : Joseph Campbell,Henry Morton Robinson
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : John Bishop
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299108236

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Joyce's Book of the Dark by John Bishop Pdf

“Joyce’s Book of the Dark gives us such a blend of exciting intelligence and impressive erudition that it will surely become established as one of the most fascinating and readable Finnegans Wake studies now available.”—Margot Norris, James Joyce Literary Supplement

Author : Alison Lacivita
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813072142

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The Ecology of Finnegans Wake by Alison Lacivita Pdf

In this book—one of the first ecocritical explorations of Irish literature—Alison Lacivita defies the popular view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer by bringing to light his consistent engagement with nature. Using genetic criticism to investigate Joyce’s source texts, notebooks, and proofs, Lacivita shows how Joyce developed ecological themes in Finnegans Wake over successive drafts. Making apparent a love of growing things and a lively connection with the natural world across his texts, Lacivita’s approach reveals Joyce’s keen attention to the Irish landscape, meteorology, urban planning, Dublin’s ecology, the exploitation of nature, and fertility and reproduction. Alison Lacivita unearths a vital quality of Joyce’s work that has largely gone undetected, decisively aligning ecocriticism with both modernism and Irish studies.

Author : Roland McHugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015024802590

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Annotations to Finnegans Wake by Roland McHugh Pdf

The biggest stumbling block facing any prospective reader of "Finnegans Wake" is the book itself, with its thousands of words of Joyce's inventions, derived from nearly every foreign language imaginable and from a host of other sources. Now extensively revised, expanded, and corrected, Roland McHugh's "Annotations" is a unique one-volume guidebook designed to be read side by side with the "Wake" itself.

Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317111559

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James Joyce's 'Work in Progress' by Dirk Van Hulle Pdf

The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed would "fuse of themselves", are still recognizable in the text of Finnegans Wake. And while they are undeniably integrated very skillfully, they also function separately. In this publication history, Dirk Van Hulle examines the interaction between the private composition process and the public life of Joyce's 'Work in Progress', from the creation of the separate sections through their publication in periodicals and as separately published sections. Van Hulle highlights the beautifully crafted editions published by fine arts presses and Joyce's encouragement of his daughter's creative talents, even as his own creative process was slowing down in the 1930s. All of these pre-book publications were "alive" in both bibliographic and textual terms, as Joyce continually changed the texts in order to prepare the book publication of Finnegans Wake. Van Hulle's book offers a fresh perspective on these texts, showing that they are not just preparatory versions of Finnegans Wake but a 'Work in Progress' in their own right.

Author : Patrick O'Neill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487542016

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Finnegans Wakes by Patrick O'Neill Pdf

James Joyce's astonishing final text, Finnegans Wake (1939), is universally acknowledged to be entirely untranslatable. And yet, no fewer than fifteen complete renderings of the 628-page text exist to date, in twelve different languages altogether – and at least ten further complete renderings have been announced as underway for publication in the early 2020s, in nine different languages. Finnegans Wakes delineates, for the first time in any language, the international history of these renderings and discusses the multiple issues faced by translators. The book also comments on partial and fragmentary renderings from some thirty languages altogether, including such perhaps unexpected languages as Galician, Guarani, Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Irish, not to mention Latin and Ancient Egyptian. Excerpts from individual renderings are analysed in detail, together with brief biographical notes on numerous individual translators. Chronicling renderings spanning multiple decades, Finnegans Wakes illustrates the capacity of Joyce's final text to generate an inexhaustible multiplicity of possible meanings among the ever-increasing number of its impossible translations.

Author : Clive Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:63008226

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A Concordance to Finnegans Wake by Clive Hart Pdf

Author : Roland McHugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0710006667

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Annotations to Finnegans Wake by Roland McHugh Pdf

Author : R. J. Schork,Harry Burrell
Publisher : Florida James Joyce Series
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813014654

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Narrative Design in Finnegans Wake by R. J. Schork,Harry Burrell Pdf

"The first book in fifty years...that actually presents a central thesis for the entire work." -Bernard Benstock "An unusual book, often illuminating, sometimes annoying, often well researched, sometimes mistaken.... Written in a simple and direct style immediately accessible to undergraduates as well as to more practiced readers." -Clive Hart, University of Essex Making bold claims for a new literary interpretation, Harry Burrell presents a forceful analytical model for understanding Joyce's Finnegans Wake. He argues that Joyce used the genesis story of Adam and Eve as his underlying narrative and interwove it with themes and images from literature and history, thus rewriting the Bible, abolishing the wicked God of the Old Testament, and replacing Him with a gentle, loving female goddess. Critics and readers of Finnegans Wake have long yearned for "a thread of English meaning" and "a grand unified theory" for the novel but until now have been unable to penetrate its surface language. Burrell unscrambles the puzzle and reveals the basic underlying scheme that allows the reader to connect its extremely diverse parts into a comprehensible narrative. He explains who all the characters are and how Joyce disguised them while utilizing their identities. Burrell brings a scientist's approach to his task of interpretation. This strong, probing reading of Finnegans Wake is bound to stimulate controversy and extensive discussion among Joyce lovers. Harry Burrell is a retired research chemist and former associate professor of chemistry at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He is the author of numerous articles in technical journals as well as several articles for A Wake Newslitter.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 185326427X

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The Works of James Joyce by James Joyce Pdf

W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, Yeats's work is essential. This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered) to the magnificent later poems which put beyond question his status as major poet of modern times. Paradoxical, proud and passionate, Yeats speaks today as eloquently as ever.

Author : Sheldon Brivic
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299148041

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Joyce's Waking Women by Sheldon Brivic Pdf

An introduction to Finnegans Wake which aims to draw the reader quickly into the novel's depths through detailed feminist and Lacanian reading of several crucial sections and themes. Includes a substantial introduction concerning Joyce's attitudes toward women. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Luca Crispi,Sam Slote
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015066822985

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How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake by Luca Crispi,Sam Slote Pdf

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Author : James S. Atherton
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0809329336

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The Books at the Wake by James S. Atherton Pdf

In Finnegans Wake Joyce uses world lit­erature, great and small, sacred and pro­fane, as one of the most important and frequent of his sources. Setting out to ex­plore these literary allusions, Mr. Atherton sheds a great deal of light upon other as­pects of Joyce’s work. Entire chapters are devoted to such major figures as Swift and Lewis Carroll, while less important influences are grouped together under such headings as “The Irish Writers” and “The Fathers of the Church.” He also sur­veys the various interpretations of Finnegans Wake, and makes use of the Letters of James Joyce and the manuscript of Fin­negans Wake in the British Museum.