James Joyce And The Philosophers At Finnegans Wake

Author : Donald Phillip Verene
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810133334

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James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake by Donald Phillip Verene Pdf

James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake explores how Joyce used the philosophers Nicholas Cusanus, Giordano Bruno, and Giambattista Vico as the basis upon which to write Finnegans Wake. Very few Joyce critics know enough about these philosophers and therefore often miss their influence on Joyce's great work. Joyce embraces these philosophic companions to lead him through the underworld of history with all its repetitions and resurrections, oppositions and recombinations. We as philosophical readers of the Wake go along with them to meet everybody and in so doing are bound "to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy" of our souls the "uncreated conscience" of humankind. Verene builds his study on the basis of years of teaching Finnegans Wake side by side with Cusanus, Bruno, and Vico, and his book will serve as a guide to readers of Joyce's novel.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199695157

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Pdf

In Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping. Around them and their dreams there swirls a vortex of world history, of ambition and failure, desire and transgression, pride and shame, rivalry and conflict, gossip and mystery.

Author : Robert Baines
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198894070

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Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake by Robert Baines Pdf

Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is the first study to offer complete and comprehensive explanations of the most significant philosophical references in James Joyce's avant-garde masterpiece. Philosophy is important in all of Joyce's works, but it is his final novel which most fully engages with that field. Robert Baines shows the broad range of philosophers Joyce wove into his last work, from Aristotle to Confucius, Bergson to Kant. For each major philosophical allusion in Finnegans Wake, this book explains the original idea and reveals how Joyce first encountered it. Drawing upon extensive research into Joyce's notebooks and drafts, Baines then shows how Joyce developed and adapted that idea through repeated revisions. From here, the final form of the idea as it appears in the Wake is explored. In carefully examining the Wake's key philosophical allusions, essential themes within the novel come into focus, including history, time, language, being, and perception. We see also how those allusions combine to create a network of ideas, thinkers, and texts which has a logic and an integrity. Ultimately, Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake shows that the more one knows of the Wake's philosophical allusions, the more one can find meaning and reason in this famously perplexing book of the night.

Author : Colleen Jaurretche
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813057477

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Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake by Colleen Jaurretche Pdf

This innovative analysis shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with profoundly human ideas in Finnegans Wake—the dreamlike masterpiece that critics have called his “book of the night.” Colleen Jaurretche moves beyond what scholars know about how Joyce composed this work to suggest why he wrote and arranged it as he did. Jaurretche provides a sequential reading of the four chapters and corresponding themes of the Wake from the perspective of prayer. She examines image, manifested by the letters of the alphabet and the Book of Kells; magic, which Joyce equates with the workings of language; dreams, which he relates to poetry; and speech, glorified in the Wake for its potential to express emotions and ecstasy. Jaurretche bases her study on important thinkers from antiquity to the present, including Origen of Alexandria, Giambattista Vico, and Giordano Bruno. She demonstrates how these philosophers influenced Joyce’s view that prayer can imbue language with power. This book is an illuminating and much-needed interpretation of a work that abounds with echoes and cadences of sacred language. Jaurretche’s insights will guide readers’ understanding of the style and structure of Finnegans Wake. A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles

Author : Robert Baines
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198894049

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Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake by Robert Baines Pdf

Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is the first study to offer complete and comprehensive explanations of the most significant philosophical references in James Joyce's avant-garde masterpiece. Philosophy is important in all of Joyce's works, but it is his final novel which most fully engages with that field. Robert Baines shows the broad range of philosophers Joyce wove into his last work, from Aristotle to Confucius, Bergson to Kant. For each major philosophical allusion in Finnegans Wake, this book explains the original idea and reveals how Joyce first encountered it. Drawing upon extensive research into Joyce's notebooks and drafts, Baines then shows how Joyce developed and adapted that idea through repeated revisions. From here, the final form of the idea as it appears in the Wake is explored. In carefully examining the Wake's key philosophical allusions, essential themes within the novel come into focus, including history, time, language, being, and perception. We see also how those allusions combine to create a network of ideas, thinkers, and texts which has a logic and an integrity. Ultimately, Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake shows that the more one knows of the Wake's philosophical allusions, the more one can find meaning and reason in this famously perplexing book of the night.

Author : Donald Phillip Verene
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300127935

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Knowledge of Things Human and Divine by Donald Phillip Verene Pdf

This is the first book to examine in full the interconnections between Giambattista Vico’s new science and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Maintaining that Joyce is the greatest modern “interpreter” of Vico, Donald Phillip Verene demonstrates how images from Joyce’s work offer keys to Vico’s philosophy. Verene presents the entire course of Vico’s philosophical thought as it develops in his major works, with Joyce’s words and insights serving as a guide. The book devotes a chapter to each period of Vico’s thought, from his early orations on education to his anti-Cartesian metaphysics and his conception of universal law, culminating in his new science of the history of nations. Verene analyzes Vico’s major works, including all three editions of the New Science. The volume also features a detailed chronology of the philosopher’s career, historical illustrations related to his works, and an extensive bibliography of Vico scholarship and all English translations of his writings.

Author : Joseph Campbell,Henry Morton Robinson
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 McCourt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521886628

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James Joyce in Context by John McCourt Pdf

This collection charts the vital contextual backgrounds to James Joyce's life and writing. The essays collectively show how Joyce was rooted in his times, how he is both a product and a critic of his multiple contexts, and how important he remains to the world of literature, criticism and culture.

Author : Colleen Jaurretche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Prayer in literature
ISBN : 0813066379

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Language As Prayer in Finnegans Wake by Colleen Jaurretche Pdf

"This innovative analysis shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with intangible things in his dreamlike masterpiece Finnegans Wake. Colleen Jaurretche moves beyond what scholars know about how Joyce wrote this work to suggest exactly why it follows the order it does in its finished form"--

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1966-01
Category : English literature
ISBN : 057106700X

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A Shorter Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Pdf

Author : Philip Kitcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190842260

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Joyce's Ulysses by Philip Kitcher Pdf

"Ulysses is a famously difficult book. Philosophy is well-known as an abstruse subject. Yet thinking about Joyce's great novel in philosophical ways not only provides new approaches for seasoned Joyceans, but also orientation for those perplexed by Ulysses. Six eminent scholars, philosophers and literary critics, combine philosophical and literary analysis to present accessible perspectives on one of the world's masterpieces"--

Author : Eugène Jolas
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810125810

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Eugene Jolas by Eugène Jolas Pdf

Dividing his youth between the United States and the bilingual Alsace-Lorraine, Eugene Jolas (1894-1952) flourished in three languages. As an editor and poet, he came to know the major writers and artists of his time and enjoyed a pivotal position between the Anglo-American and Continental avant-garde. His editorship of transition, the leading avant-garde journal of Paris in the twenties and early thirties, provided a major impetus to writers from James Joyce (whose Finnegans Wake was serialized in transition) to Gertrude Stein, and Samuel Beckett, with first translations of André Breton, and Franz Kafka, among others. Jolas's critical work, collected in this volume, includes introductions to anthologies, manifestoes like the famous Vertical, essays, some published here for the first time, on writers as various as Novalis, Trakl, the major Surrealists, Heidegger, and other philosophers. An acute observer of the literary scene as well as of the roiling politics of the time, Jolas emerges here in his role at the very center of avant-garde activity between the wars. Accordingly, this book is of signal importance to anyone with an interest in modernism, avant-garde, multilingualism, and the culture of Western Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : John Bishop
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015025360101

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Joyce's Use of History in Finnegans Wake by Cyrus R. K. Patell Pdf

Author : John Harty, III
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317273509

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James Joyce's Finnegans Wake by John Harty, III Pdf

First published in 1991. James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: A Case Book was published in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Joyce's final work with 14 critical essays and a page-by-page outline of the novel. The book includes critical approaches and interpretations in film, drama, and music. This title will be of interest to students of literature.