Description: Further DetailsTitle: Joyce's Book of the DarkCondition: NewSubtitle: Finnegans WakeEAN: 9780299108243ISBN: 9780299108243Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/30/1993Description: Finnegan's Wake" is perhaps the most difficult and wilfully obscure piece in all of modern literature, a book written in polyglottal puns that continues to baffle not only lay readers but, in large part, Joyceans as well. Here in 12 chapters, John Bishop aims to unravel Joyce's obscurities and aims to reveal the "Wake" more clearly than anyone has done before. The greatest obstacle to the comprehension of "Finnegan's Wake", says Bishop, is the failure to believe that Joyce really meant what he said when he spoke of the book as being a reconstruction of the nocturnal life. As a consequence, readers have scrutinized the text with an unyielding literalism bent on finding a kind of meaning in every way antithetical to the kind of meaning embodied in dreams. Had Joyce made the "Wake" less obscure, says Bishop, he would have annihilated everything about the book that is most essential, most engaging, funny, and most profound. In taking seriously Joyce's stated intention of writing a book about the night, Bishop shows how the determination to represent nocturnal experience accounts for the form, shape, direction, and language of "Finnegan's Wake". Although Bishop is not the first to appreciate the problems Joyce faced in his reconstruction of the night, no one has demonstrated more clearly and persuasively how Joyce's creative imagination solved those problems, nor made a more convincing case for the profound significance of Joyce's effort. Bishop relates the "Wake" to Freud, to Vico, and to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, shedding light throughout on such fundamental and complex subjects as dream theory and interpretation; thanatology; optics and phonetics; infancy, embryology, and gender; and sexuality and power.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: John BishopGenre: Literary CriticismItem Height: 255mmItem Length: 201mmItem Weight: 960gRelease Year: 1993 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Joyce's Book of the Dark
Title: Joyce's Book of the Dark
Subtitle: Finnegans Wake
EAN: 9780299108243
ISBN: 9780299108243
Release Date: 06/30/1993
Release Year: 1993
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 496 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Joyce's Book of the Dark : Finnegans Wake
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 1993
Features: Reprint
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 35 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Length: 10 in
Author: John Bishop
Series: Mark H Ingraham Prize Ser.
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
