1st Edition

James Joyce's Finnegans Wake A Casebook

Edited By John Harty, III Copyright 1991
    234 Pages
    by Routledge

    234 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Acknowledgements;  Editor’s Note;  Introduction;  A Working Outline of Finnegans WakePart 1: Assessments;  1. Dreaming Up the Wake  2. An Introduction to Finnegans Wake  3. SHEM THE TEXTMAN  4. The Femasculine Obsubject: A Lacanian Reading of FW 606-607  5. Quinet in the Wake: The Proof or The Pudding?  6. Finnegans Wake: All the World’s a Stage  7. The Convertshems of the Tchoose: Judaism and Jewishness in Finnegans Wake  8. Joyce’s "Blue Guitar": Wallace Stevens and Finnegans WakePart 2: Joyce’s Textual Self-Referentiality;  9. Every Man His Own God: From Ulysses to Finnegans Wake  10. Joyce’s Nonce-Symbolic Calculus: A Finnegans Wake Trajectory  11. The Female World;  Part 3: Performance;  12. "Group drinkards maaks grope thinkards or how reads rotary" (FW 312.31): Finnegans Wake and the Group Reading Experience  13. Notes for Staging Finnegans Wake  14. Mary Ellen Bute’s Film Adaptation of Finnegans Wake  15. Thoughts on Making Music From the Hundred-Letter Words in Finnegans Wake;  Contributors;  Index

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