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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... structure the narrative. Once you have started there is no going back. Since you do not know what happened, you might as well just make it up: choose a character and let it roll from there. But that hardly helps to limit your choice. So ...
... structure the narrative. Once you have started there is no going back. Since you do not know what happened, you might as well just make it up: choose a character and let it roll from there. But that hardly helps to limit your choice. So ...
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... structure of history, of hatred, of human division, and somehow provide solutions to the problems inherent in those structures, is exploded. Paul Léon, Joyce's friend in his last few years and a man who knew Finnegans Wake extremely ...
... structure of history, of hatred, of human division, and somehow provide solutions to the problems inherent in those structures, is exploded. Paul Léon, Joyce's friend in his last few years and a man who knew Finnegans Wake extremely ...
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... structure of the novel, and the way each book represents a different age, though there are also cycles within cycles. Vico also explains the presence of certain motifs such as giants, thunder, and caves, and birth, marriage, and burial ...
... structure of the novel, and the way each book represents a different age, though there are also cycles within cycles. Vico also explains the presence of certain motifs such as giants, thunder, and caves, and birth, marriage, and burial ...
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... structure to the whole as a life dreamt by a human passing from this world to the next. The dream allows a trip away from the realm of reason to a region which Proust summarizes eloquently: Suddenly I fell asleep, plunged into that deep ...
... structure to the whole as a life dreamt by a human passing from this world to the next. The dream allows a trip away from the realm of reason to a region which Proust summarizes eloquently: Suddenly I fell asleep, plunged into that deep ...
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... Structural approaches may also provide us with an overview of the work's 'characters', between whom the story weaves, and amongst whom its material is distributed. The plot and structure of Finnegans Wake may be difficult, but ...
... Structural approaches may also provide us with an overview of the work's 'characters', between whom the story weaves, and amongst whom its material is distributed. The plot and structure of Finnegans Wake may be difficult, but ...
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