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EBOOK Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake:Unravelling Universals

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191607561
EAN: E8825499EB
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Stron: 278
Data wydania: 2007
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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 curiousdaughter        (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        andtransformation. 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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