Finnegans
Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and
their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as
all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed
styles, like Ulysses, but, rather,
formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape.
This 'language' is based on English vocabulary and syntax but, at the same
time, self-consciously designed to function as a pun machine with an
astonishing capacity for resisting singularity of meaning. Announcing a
'revolution of the word', this astonishing book amounts to a powerfully
resonant cultural critique - a unique kind of miscommunication which, far from
stabilizing the world in meaning, constructs a universe radically unfixed by a
wild diversity of possibilities and potentials. It also remains the most
hilarious, 'obscene', book of innuendos ever to be imagined.
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Finnegans Wake
is Joyce’s last great work, and is formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape. It also remains the most
hilarious, ‘obscene’, book of innuendos ever to be imagined.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781840226614
Publisert
2012-01-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Vekt
403 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
33 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
656
Forfatter
Introduction by
Series edited by