An edited volume examining the many ways in which Joyce exhibits Renaissance tendencies, comparing him with major Renaissance figures, such as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Bruno
James Joyce's Ulysses, once regarded as obscure and obscene, is now viewed as one of the masterpieces of world literature. Yet Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake, to which he devoted seventeen years, remains virtually unread, except by scholarly specialists. Its linguistic nove…
"Joyce's Kaleidoscope' is a refreshingly novel and systematic interpretation of one of the most famous and notoriously difficult works of literature - 'Finnegans Wake."
"James Joyce's Ulysses, once regarded as obscure and obscene, is now viewed as a masterpiece of world literature. Yet Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake, to which he devoted seventeen years, remains virtually unread. Its linguistic novelties, layered allusions, and experimental…
Page by page, chapter by chapter, [this book] outlines the basic action of [Finnegans Wake], simplifies and clarifies the complex web of images and illusions, and provides an understandable continuous narrative from which the reader can venture out on his own.-Dust jacket.
"James Joyce's use of ten one hundred-letter words in Finnegans Wake has always been an intriguing feature of that novel. Eric McLuhan takes a new approach by placing the Wake in the tradition of Menippean satire, where language is used to shock and provoke. Seen in this light, …
The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake
James Joyce's use of ten one hundred-letter words in Finnegans Wake has always been an intriguing feature of that novel. Eric McLuhan takes a new by placing the Wake in the tradition of Menippean satire, where language is used to shock and provoke. Seen in this light, Joyce's pe…