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Joyce's Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake (Mark H Ingraham Prize)
John Bishop
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Description for Joyce's Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake (Mark H Ingraham Prize)
Paperback. The author examines "Finnegans Wake" and attempts to unravel what he feels are Joyce's wilful obscurities. This book aims to demonstrate how Joyce's creative imagination solved the problems involved in writing a representation of the night. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 204 x 27. Weight in Grams: 951.
Finnegan's Wake" is perhaps the most difficult and wilfully obscure piece in all of modern literature, a book written in polyglottal puns that continues to baffle not only lay readers but, in large part, Joyceans as well. Here in 12 chapters, John Bishop aims to unravel Joyce's obscurities and aims to reveal the "Wake" more clearly than anyone has done before. The greatest obstacle to the comprehension of "Finnegan's Wake", says Bishop, is the failure to believe that Joyce really meant what he said when he spoke of the book as being a reconstruction of the nocturnal life. As a ... Read more
Finnegan's Wake" is perhaps the most difficult and wilfully obscure piece in all of modern literature, a book written in polyglottal puns that continues to baffle not only lay readers but, in large part, Joyceans as well. Here in 12 chapters, John Bishop aims to unravel Joyce's obscurities and aims to reveal the "Wake" more clearly than anyone has done before. The greatest obstacle to the comprehension of "Finnegan's Wake", says Bishop, is the failure to believe that Joyce really meant what he said when he spoke of the book as being a reconstruction of the nocturnal life. As a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299108243
SKU
V9780299108243
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About John Bishop
John Bishop is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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