Annotations to Finnegans Wake

Author: Roland McHugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 656

Book Description
The biggest stumbling block facing any prospective reader of "Finnegans Wake" is the book itself, with its thousands of words of Joyce's inventions, derived from nearly every foreign language imaginable and from a host of other sources. Now extensively revised, expanded, and corrected, Roland McHugh's "Annotations" is a unique one-volume guidebook designed to be read side by side with the "Wake" itself.

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake

Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1577314050
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
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.

Joyce's Book of the Dark

Author: John Bishop
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299108236
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description
“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

Re Joyce

Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393004458
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Commentary on Joyce for the average reader.

A Reader's Guide to James Joyce

Author: William York Tindall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description

Annotations to Finnegans Wake

Author: Roland McHugh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780710006660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628

Book Description

How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake

Author: Luca Crispi
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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A Guide Through Finnegans Wake

Author: Edmund L. Epstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813035345
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

A Reader's Guide to Dylan Thomas

Author: William York Tindall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Finnegans Wake

Author: John Gordon
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815623953
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
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.