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Annotations to Finnegans Wake
Roland McHugh
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Description for Annotations to Finnegans Wake
Paperback. He expands his examination of possible textual corruption and adds hundreds of new glosses to help scholars, students, and general readers untangle the dense thicket of allusions that crowds every sentence of Joyce's nearly inscrutable masterpiece. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: DS; DSR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
Roland McHugh's classic Annotations to Finnegans Wake provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of the Annotations corresponds directly to a page of the standard Viking/Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake and contains line-by-line notes following the placement of the passages to which they refer, enabling readers to look directly from text to notes and back again, with no need to consult separate glossaries or other listings. McHugh's richly detailed annotations distill decades of scholarship, explicating foreign words, unusual English ... Read more
Roland McHugh's classic Annotations to Finnegans Wake provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of the Annotations corresponds directly to a page of the standard Viking/Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake and contains line-by-line notes following the placement of the passages to which they refer, enabling readers to look directly from text to notes and back again, with no need to consult separate glossaries or other listings. McHugh's richly detailed annotations distill decades of scholarship, explicating foreign words, unusual English ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
664
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421419077
SKU
V9781421419077
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99-50
About Roland McHugh
Roland McHugh moved to Dublin in 1973 in order to understand Finnegans Wake more completely and has lived there ever since. He is the author of The Sigla of Finnegans Wake and The Finnegans Wake Experience.
Reviews for Annotations to Finnegans Wake
I don't think we still have readers such as Roland McHugh who read the Wake without any help: most novices read the Wake in one hand and McHugh's Annotations in the other.
A Collideorscape of Joyce It is hard to think of any reader of Finnegans Wake who would not have Roland McHugh's Annotations... on ... Read more
A Collideorscape of Joyce It is hard to think of any reader of Finnegans Wake who would not have Roland McHugh's Annotations... on ... Read more