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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... reading group in London for its model exegetical practices, especially those of Andrew Gibson and Joe Brooker; the readers and Wakeans Patrick McCarthy, Sheldon Brivic, and Derek Attridge for invaluable suggestions regarding an earlier ...
... reading group in London for its model exegetical practices, especially those of Andrew Gibson and Joe Brooker; the readers and Wakeans Patrick McCarthy, Sheldon Brivic, and Derek Attridge for invaluable suggestions regarding an earlier ...
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... readers has developed over the seventyeight years since its first publication. The continual critical redefining of ... reading'' read ''readings'' ', in Dirk van Hulle (ed.), James Joyce: The Study of Languages (Brussels: Peter Lang ...
... readers has developed over the seventyeight years since its first publication. The continual critical redefining of ... reading'' read ''readings'' ', in Dirk van Hulle (ed.), James Joyce: The Study of Languages (Brussels: Peter Lang ...
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... reading a part for the whole, it was 'a mighty mother... now at last making ready to take her slide into the unsuspecting sea',4 the mighty work about to be cast adrift on the sea of the future carried along by an unknown readership ...
... reading a part for the whole, it was 'a mighty mother... now at last making ready to take her slide into the unsuspecting sea',4 the mighty work about to be cast adrift on the sea of the future carried along by an unknown readership ...
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... reader of today. For I cannot see anywhere the slightest attempt in it to face or still less to solve these pressing ... readers. This reputation of importance, twinned with the disclosures of its impotence, is something, however, that ...
... reader of today. For I cannot see anywhere the slightest attempt in it to face or still less to solve these pressing ... readers. This reputation of importance, twinned with the disclosures of its impotence, is something, however, that ...
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... readers' memories make. If they seem intriguing, find any old guide from a good library—Campbell, Tyndall, Glasheen, Benstock, Rose, Gordon—and see what they say about the plot, or simply follow the one below. Then try slowing down, reading ...
... readers' memories make. If they seem intriguing, find any old guide from a good library—Campbell, Tyndall, Glasheen, Benstock, Rose, Gordon—and see what they say about the plot, or simply follow the one below. Then try slowing down, reading ...
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