How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake: A Chapter-by-chapter Genetic Guide - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0299218643 ISBN 13: 9780299218645

Casa editrice: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 2008

Riassunto

In this landmark study of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Luca Crispi and Sam Slote have brought together fourteen other leading Joyce experts in a genetic guide to one of the twentieth century’s most intriguing works of fiction. Each essay approaches Finnegans Wake through novel perspectives afforded by Joyce’s preparatory manuscripts. By investigating a work through its manuscripts, genetic criticism both grounds speculative interpretations in an historical, material context and opens up a broader horizon for critical and textual interpretation.

The introduction by Luca Crispi, Sam Slote, and Dirk Van Hulle offers a chronology of the composition of Finnegans Wake, an archival survey of the manuscripts, and an introduction to genetic criticism. Then, the volume provides a chapter-by-chapter interpretation of Finnegans Wake from a variety of perspectives, probing the book as a work in progress. The fruit of more than two decades’ worth of Wakean genetic studies, this book is the essential starting point for all future studies of Joyce’s most complex and fascinating work.

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Luca Crispi is James Joyce Research Fellow at the National Library of Ireland. He was cocurator of the National Library's Ulysses exhibition, which featured more than a dozen newly uncovered Joyce manuscripts. Sam Slote is the author of The Silence in Progress of Dante, Mallarmé, and Joyce and the coeditor of Probes: Genetic Studies in Joyce and Genitricksling Joyce.

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In this landmark study of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake", Luca Crispi and Sam Slote have brought together leading Joyce experts to explore the genesis of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing works of fiction. Each essay approaches "Finnegans Wake" through novel perspectives afforded by Joyce's preparatory manuscripts. By investigating a work through its earlier drafts, genetic criticism grounds speculative interpretations in a historical, material context and opens up a broader horizon for critical and textual interpretation.The introduction by Luca Crispi, Sam Slote, and Dirk Van Hulle offers a chronology of the composition of "Finnegans Wake", an archival survey of the manuscripts, and an introduction to genetic criticism. Then, the volume provides a chapter-by-chapter interpretation of the Wake, probing the book as a work in progress. This book is the essential starting point for all future studies of Joyce's most complex and fascinating work.

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• Editore: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0299218643
• ISBN 13: 9780299218645
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 522
• Redattore: Crispi Luca, Slote Sam