Finnegans Wake

Author	: John Gordon
Publisher	: Syracuse University Press
Release Date	: 1986-12-01
ISBN 10	: 081562395X
Pages	: 328 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (239 users)

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Download or read book Finnegans Wake written by John Gordon and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1986-12-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only full-length study of Finnegans Wake to outline and catalog the immense amount of naturalistic detail from which Joyce built the book. The opening chapters describe the physical setting, time, and main characters out of which the book is constructed. John Gordon argues that behind this detail is an essentially autobiographical story involving Joyce's history and, in particular, his feelings toward his father, wife, daughter and the older brother who died in infancy. Many of the author's findings are new and likely to be controversial because recent criticism has tended to the belief that what he attempts to do cannot be done. This new study of Finnegans Wake represents a radically conservative approach and is intended to function both as a guide to the newcomer seeking a chapter-by-chapter plot summary and as an original contribution to Joyce criticism.

Alchemy and Finnegans Wake

Author	: Barbara DiBernard
Publisher	: SUNY Press
Release Date	: 1980-01-01
ISBN 10	: 0873953886
Pages	: 188 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (538 users)

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Download or read book Alchemy and Finnegans Wake written by Barbara DiBernard and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Joyce s Finnegans Wake

Author	: John P. Anderson
Publisher	: Universal-Publishers
Release Date	: 2010-11
ISBN 10	: 9781599428109
Pages	: 462 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (994 users)

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Download or read book Joyce s Finnegans Wake written by John P. Anderson and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth in a series continues this non-academic author's ground-breaking word by word analysis of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This volume covers all of chapters 1.7, 1.8 and 2.1 with the intent to explore them as art objects. In chapters 1.7 and 1.8 Aesthetics meets Theosophy meets Metaphysics. Together they share a common subject-how one part or whole treats another part. These two chapters move from shun to share, hurt to help, male to female. In aesthetics, from bad art to good art. In theosophy, from TZTZ god to ES god. In metaphysics a la Arthur Schopenhauer, from male to female aspects of Will. Featuring an all male cast, chapter 1.7 is a stinging criticism of Shem by Shaun-brother against brother. Chapter 1.7 is intentionally bad art. In aesthetic terms, the whole of the chapter is at odds with the parts and the parts at odds with other parts. With an all female cast, chapter 1.8 features a young washerwoman and old washerwoman washing clothes and talking together across a river. The main point is that they are working together, and Old shares knowledge of the eternal feminine with Young. Sharing replaces shunning. Part helps part. Chapter 1.8 is intentionally divine art. Chapter 2.1 starts Part II that features the Earwicker children, the human expression of the death defying new. As children, they come with the potential for new possibilities. Initially, however, their realization is limited by youth, when they are more under instinct-based and parental control than under self-control. Chapter 2.1 features a children's game fueled by immature sexual intoxication and loss of self-control. Joyce presents this come-on game in the rhythms and rhymes of children's stories, poems and songs, that is in children's art limited by the purpose to please a young mind. Chapter 2.1 takes the form of a play. The action in the play is the children's game. It is a play about play. With drama in the structure, Joyce weaves Macbeth into the chapter and like Shakespeare's bearded witches, boils the pot with male and female. Hermetic magic supplies the metaphors and concepts for chapter 2.1. Hermetic magic is the art of accessing the celestial force field known as the Astral Light. In order to have strong magic the magus must be in equilibrium and must know him or herself. Magus Joyce notes that these same requirements are necessary for the highest art.

Annotations to Finnegans Wake

Author	: Roland McHugh
Publisher	: JHU Press
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 0801883814
Pages	: 664 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (838 users)

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Download or read book Annotations to Finnegans Wake written by Roland McHugh and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered the essential guide to Joyce's famously difficult work, Roland McHugh's Annotations to "Finnegans Wake" provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of the Annotations corresponds directly with a page of the standard Viking/Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake and contains line-by-line notes following the placement of the passages to which they refer. The reader can thus look directly from text to notes and back again, with no need to consult separate glossaries or other listings. McHugh's richly detailed notes distill decades of scholarship, explicating foreign words, unusual English connotations and colloquial expressions, place names, historical events, song titles and quotations, parodies of other texts, and Joyce's diverse literary and popular sources. The third edition has added material reflecting fifteen years of research, including significant new insights from Joyce's compositional notebooks (the "Buffalo Notebooks"), now being edited for the first time.

James Joyce s Finnegans Wake

Author	: John Harty, III
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2015-12-22
ISBN 10	: 9781317273516
Pages	: 210 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (172 users)

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Download or read book James Joyce s Finnegans Wake written by John Harty, III and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Finnegans Wake Experience

Author	: Roland McHugh
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Release Date	: 1981-01-01
ISBN 10	: 0520042980
Pages	: 142 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (429 users)

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Download or read book The Finnegans Wake Experience written by Roland McHugh and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Joyce Race and Finnegans Wake

Author	: Len Platt
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2007-01-11
ISBN 10	: 9781139462983
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (394 users)

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Download or read book Joyce Race and Finnegans Wake written by Len Platt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Len Platt charts a fresh approach through one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century literature. Using original archival research and detailed close readings, he outlines Joyce's literary response to the racial discourse of twentieth-century politics. Platt's account is the first to position Finnegans Wake in precise historical conditions and to explore Joyce's engagement with European fascism. Race, Platt claims, is a central theme for Joyce, both in terms of the colonial and post-colonial conflicts between the Irish and the British, and in terms of its use by the extreme right. It is in this context that Joyce's engagement with race, while certainly a product of colonial relations, also figures as a wider disputation with rationalism, capitalism and modernity.

Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake

Author	: Finn Fordham
Publisher	: OUP Oxford
Release Date	: 2007-08-30
ISBN 10	: 9780191607561
Pages	: 278 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (916 users)

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Download or read book Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake written by Finn Fordham and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical introduction to Finnegans Wake and its genesis. Finn Fordham provides a survey of critical, scholarly, and theoretical approaches to Joyce's iconic masterpiece. He also analyses in detail the compositional development of certain key passages which describe the artist (Shem) and his project; the river-mother (ALP) and her 'first kiss'; the Oedipal shooting of the universal father (HCE) by the priestly son (Shaun); and the bewitching and curious daughter (Issy). His analyses demonstrate 'genetic' ways of reading the text which illustrate its immense range and playfulness and how these qualities were generated in composition. As well as opening up the densely detailed textuality of the Wake in all its multiplicity, Fordham argues for a relation between the way the text was formed and key aspects of its thematic content: an uprising of particularity and detail against universality, absolutes, and generality. He shows that the proliferation of individuated textual details overwhelms any unitary concept to the text. And this reflects an idealized and utopian uprising as it overcomes centralizing singularity: Finnegans do wake up. As part of this argument he proposes a qualified return to a notion of character - qualified in that characters can be understood in part as reflecting the character of compositional techniques: self-criticism and concealment, expansion and growth, flow and reflection, transferral and transformation. The character of the text's composition as a whole can be, paradoxically, summed up in the force of individuated multitudes: in the people, male and female, young and old, combining to overwhelm syntactic uniformity and singular signification. Quotations from the works of James Joyce reproduced with permission of the Estate of James Joyce, © Estate of James Joyce. We regret that acknowledgement to the James Joyce Estate for permission to include material by James Joyce was not included in the first printing of this book.

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Delphi Classics Illustrated

Author	: James Joyce
Publisher	: Delphi Classics
Release Date	: 2017-07-17
ISBN 10	: 9781786564702
Pages	: 555 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (865 users)

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Download or read book Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Delphi Classics Illustrated written by James Joyce and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Finnegans Wake’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of James Joyce’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Joyce includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Finnegans Wake’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Joyce’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism

Author	: Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Publisher	: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date	: 1996
ISBN 10	: 029915064X
Pages	: 300 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (56 users)

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Download or read book The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism written by Kevin J. H. Dettmar and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly three quarters of a century, the modernist way of reading has been the only way of reading Joyce - useful, yes, and powerful but, like all frameworks, limited. This book takes a leap across those limits into postmodernism, where the pleasures and possibilities of an unsuspected Joyce are yet to be found. Kevin J. H. Dettmar begins by articulating a stylistics of postmodernism drawn from the key texts of Roland Barthes, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Jean-Francois Lyotard. Read within this framework, Dubliners emerges from behind its modernist facade as the earliest product of Joyce's proto-post-modernist sensibility. Dettmar exposes these stories as tales of mystery, not mastery, despite the modernist earmarks of plentiful symbols, allusions, and epiphanies. Ulysses, too, has been inadequately served by modernist critics. Where they have emphasized the work's ingenious Homeric structure, Dettmar focuses instead upon its seams, those points at which the narrative willfully, joyfully overflows its self-imposed bounds. Finally, he reads A Portrait of the Artist and Finnegans Wake as less playful, less daring texts - the first constrained by the precious, would be poet at its center, the last marking a surprising retreat from the constantly evolving, vertiginous experience of Ulysses.

The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce

Author	: Derek Attridge
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2004-06-17
ISBN 10	: 9781107494947
Pages	: 314 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (74 users)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce written by Derek Attridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.

Critical Companion to James Joyce

Author	: A. Nicholas Fargnoli
Publisher	: Infobase Publishing
Release Date	: 2014-05-14
ISBN 10	: 9781438108483
Pages	: 465 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (381 users)

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Download or read book Critical Companion to James Joyce written by A. Nicholas Fargnoli and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and writings of James Joyce, including a biographical sketch, detailed synopses of his works, social and historical influences, and more.

A Guide Through Finnegans Wake

Author	: Edmund L. Epstein
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2009
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015079306117
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 users)

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Download or read book A Guide Through Finnegans Wake written by Edmund L. Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book guides readers through the complex, pun-based, and dreamlike narrative of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Defying conventions of plot and continuity, Finnegans Wake has been challenging readers since its first publication in 1939. The novel is so famously difficult that it is widely agreed that only the brave or foolhardy attempt to unravel this well-known but relatively little-read classic.

Mythic Worlds Modern Words

Author	: Joseph Campbell
Publisher	: New World Library
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN 10	: 1577314069
Pages	: 384 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (14 users)

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Download or read book Mythic Worlds Modern Words written by Joseph Campbell and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Campbell's groundbreaking 1927 meditations on James Joyce's Ulysses are published for the first time, revealing fascinating secrets that will delight both Campbell and Joyce fans, including writings, lectures, and other commentaries on Joyce.

James Joyce

Author	: Arnold Goldman
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2015-12-22
ISBN 10	: 9781317292203
Pages	: 124 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (172 users)

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Download or read book James Joyce written by Arnold Goldman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, first published in 1968, draws attention to the special relationship between Joyce’s life and his writing. The passages are presented in chronological order, with a commentary that pays particular attention to the bibliographical aspects of Joyce’s art. Goldman focuses on three texts; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. James Joyce will be of interest to students of literature.

Yeats and Joyce

Author	: Alistair Cormack
Publisher	: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 0754660281
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (62 users)

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Download or read book Yeats and Joyce written by Alistair Cormack and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging characterisations of Joyce and Yeats as polar opposites, Alistair Cormack shows that Joyce and Yeats independently challenged a linearity and materialism they identified with empire and celebrated Ireland as destabilising the accepted forms of thought and the accepted means of narrating the nation. Thus, Cormack argues, 'unreadable' modernist works such as Finnegans Wake and A Vision must be understood as attempts to reconceptualise history in a literally postcolonial period.

James Joyce s Aesthetic Theory

Author	: Dolf Sörensen
Publisher	: Rodopi
Release Date	: 1977
ISBN 10	: 9062032001
Pages	: 104 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book James Joyce s Aesthetic Theory written by Dolf Sörensen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1977 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: