Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling UniversalsOUP Oxford, 30 օգս, 2007 թ. - 278 էջ 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. |
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... perhaps. But that, paradoxically, is both too well known and too easily discredited. How about using the facts that archaeology unearths concerning the cultivation of grain or the earliest city? That's more scientific but might lack ...
... perhaps. But that, paradoxically, is both too well known and too easily discredited. How about using the facts that archaeology unearths concerning the cultivation of grain or the earliest city? That's more scientific but might lack ...
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... perhaps self-consciously, getting up—if only to fall over again. This shape is a means of laughing at power's mechanisms and representations of its upright self, its towers and rhetoric and laws, its everimproving technologies of ...
... perhaps self-consciously, getting up—if only to fall over again. This shape is a means of laughing at power's mechanisms and representations of its upright self, its towers and rhetoric and laws, its everimproving technologies of ...
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... perhaps grows up to be Sackerson. 2. NARRATIONAL APPROACH Structural and narrational approaches are similar in that they both give an overview, the latter uncovering a skeletal narrative that underpins everything. The model for this ...
... perhaps grows up to be Sackerson. 2. NARRATIONAL APPROACH Structural and narrational approaches are similar in that they both give an overview, the latter uncovering a skeletal narrative that underpins everything. The model for this ...
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... Perhaps the letter written by his wife will clear things up (93). But where is it? The four judges argue about it all (96) and still, the gossip continues—is it true he's dead? No, he's alive, as smoke from his chimney shows, sheltered ...
... Perhaps the letter written by his wife will clear things up (93). But where is it? The four judges argue about it all (96) and still, the gossip continues—is it true he's dead? No, he's alive, as smoke from his chimney shows, sheltered ...
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... perhaps—to see what he can make of them. Shaun is not impressed and, as in I.7, he attacks his brother Shem. He gets so worked up about this, especially the damage Shem might do in writing for or about his mother, that he topples over ...
... perhaps—to see what he can make of them. Shaun is not impressed and, as in I.7, he attacks his brother Shem. He gets so worked up about this, especially the damage Shem might do in writing for or about his mother, that he topples over ...
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