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Author: Sheldon Brivic
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780299148041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to Finnegans Wake which aims to draw the reader quickly into the novel's depths through detailed feminist and Lacanian reading of several crucial sections and themes. Includes a substantial introduction concerning Joyce's attitudes toward women. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: John Harty, III
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1317273516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst 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.
Author: Elisabeth Sheffield
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780838637340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile Sheffield's study shares a common presupposition of these recent interpretations, it challenges the idea that the move Joyce makes with this alignment is one that puts him on the side of woman. Sheffield contends that Joyce is not expressing his solidarity with woman or "womanly thought" in opposition to a masculine literary and philosophical tradition, but rather relying on ancient stereotypes to personify a dangerously "other" form of writing.
Author: James Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-14
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1316739139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoyce's engagement with Dante is a crucial component of all of his work. This title reconsiders the responses to Dante in Joyce's work from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Finnegans Wake. It presents that encounter as an historically complex and contextually determined interaction reflecting the contested development of Dante's reputation, readership and textuality throughout the nineteenth century. This process produced a 'Dante with a difference', a uniquely creative and unorthodox construction of the poet which informed Joyce's lifelong engagement with such works as the Vita Nuova and the Commedia. Tracing the movement through Joyce's writing on exile as a mode of alienation and charting his growing interest in ideas of community, Joyce's Dante shows how awareness of his changing reading of Dante can alter our understanding of one of the Irish writer's lasting thematic preoccupations.
Author: Chrissie Van Mierlo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-02-23
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1472585968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Joyce and Catholicism is the first historicist study to explore the religious cultural contexts of Joyce's final masterpiece. Drawing on letters, authorial manuscripts and other archival materials, the book works its way through a number of crucial themes; heresy, anticlericalism, Mariology, and others. Along the way, the book considers Joyce's vexed relationship with the Catholic Church he was brought up in, and the unique forms of Catholicism that blossomed in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and during the first years of the Irish Free State.
Author: Colm O’Shea
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-07-29
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1000617742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sanskrit word mandala can be translated as "sacred circle." Within the circle sits a microcosm of the universe and/or consciousness, repre-sented by icons. Eastern civilizations developed the spiritual-artistic practice of creating mandalas—with sand, paint, and architecture—to high technical sophistication, making manifest a geometry with layers of esoteric meaning for both the mandala artist and the initiated spectator. James Joyce’s Mandala outlines and explains this iconic sacred geometry, and assesses to what extent Joyce’s works of literature, in particular Finnegans Wake, can be understood as mandalic constructs. Using exam-ples from Dubliners to the Wake, we see how fundamental to Joyce’s fiction is the issue of spiritual paralysis (a problem the mandala attempts to dissolve) and also how fascinated he was by geometric imagery and symmetry, the technical devices employed in mandala construction. This is the first book-length comparison of Joyce’s work with the mythic structure of the mandala. Never discounting the richness of Joyce’s genius, it uses his "collideorscape" to explore the secrets of the mandala principle as much as it uses mandala theory to illuminate his famed book of the night.
Author: Robert Baines
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-03-14
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 019889404X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is the first study to offer complete and comprehensive explanations of the most significant philosophical references in James Joyce's avant-garde masterpiece. Philosophy is important in all of Joyce's works, but it is his final novel which most fully engages with that field. Robert Baines shows the broad range of philosophers Joyce wove into his last work, from Aristotle to Confucius, Bergson to Kant. For each major philosophical allusion in Finnegans Wake, this book explains the original idea and reveals how Joyce first encountered it. Drawing upon extensive research into Joyce's notebooks and drafts, Baines then shows how Joyce developed and adapted that idea through repeated revisions. From here, the final form of the idea as it appears in the Wake is explored. In carefully examining the Wake's key philosophical allusions, essential themes within the novel come into focus, including history, time, language, being, and perception. We see also how those allusions combine to create a network of ideas, thinkers, and texts which has a logic and an integrity. Ultimately, Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake shows that the more one knows of the Wake's philosophical allusions, the more one can find meaning and reason in this famously perplexing book of the night.
Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-17
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 110749494X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.
Author: Joseph Valente
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780472086894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first sustained analysis of the place of homoeroticism in Joyce's cultural politics
Author: Finn Fordham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-08-30
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0199215863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Joyce's Finnegans Wake is an iconic text of 20th-century literature, an avant-garde epic that has inspired experimental work in such diverse fields as music, art, philosophy, and film. Finn Fordham's critical introduction looks at how it was written and asks what this can tell us about the hundreds of things it seems to be about.
