How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake: A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide (Irish Studies in Literature and Culture) (Volume 0)

ISBN 10: 0299218643 / ISBN 13: 9780299218645

Editore: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008

In. Codice articolo ria9780299218645_new

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.

Informazioni sull'autore: 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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Titolo: How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake: A ...
Casa editrice: University of Wisconsin Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: New