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Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake by Finn Fordham, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Finn Fordham

Current price: $138.95
Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake by Finn Fordham, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake by Finn Fordham, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake by Finn Fordham, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Finn Fordham

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This book is a critical introduction to Finnegans Wake and its genesis. Finn Fordham provides a survey of critical, scholarly, and theoretical approaches to Joyce's iconic masterpiece. He also analyses in detail the compositional development of certain key passages which describe the artist(Shem) and his project; the river-mother (ALP) and her 'first kiss'; the Oedipal shooting of the universal father (HCE) by the priestly son (Shaun); and the bewitching and curious daughter (Issy). His analyses demonstrate 'genetic' ways of reading the text which illustrate its immense range andplayfulness and how these qualities were generated in composition. As well as opening up the densely detailed textuality of the Wake in all its multiplicity, Fordham argues for a relation between the way the text was formed and key aspects of its thematic content: an uprising of particularity and detail against universality, absolutes, and generality. He shows thatthe proliferation of individuated textual details overwhelms any unitary concept to the text. And this reflects an idealized and utopian uprising as it overcomes centralizing singularity: Finnegans do wake up. As part of this argument he proposes a qualified return to a notion of character -qualified in that characters can be understood in part as reflecting the character of compositional techniques: self-criticism and concealment, expansion and growth, flow and reflection, transferral and transformation. The character of the text's composition as a whole can be, paradoxically, summedup in the force of individuated multitudes: in the people, male and female, young and old, combining to overwhelm syntactic uniformity and singular signification. | Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake by Finn Fordham, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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