Joyce's Allmaziful Plurabilities: Polyvocal Explorations of Finnegans Wake (The Florida James Joyce Series) - Softcover

Kimberly J. Devlin (editor) & Christine Smedley (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813064813 ISBN 13: 9780813064819

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2018

Synopsis

This is the first Finnegans Wake guide to focus exclusively on the multiple meanings and voices in Joyce's notoriously intricate diction. Rather than leveling the text it illuminates many layers of puns, wordplay, and portmanteaus, celebrating the Wake's central experimental technique. Renowned Joyce scholars explore the polyvocality of individual chapters using game theory, ecocriticism, psychoanalysis, historicism, myth, philosophy, genetic studies, feminism, and other critical frameworks. They set in motion cross-currents and radiating structures of meaning that permeate the entire text and open up satisfying readings of the Wake for novices and seasoned readers alike.

About this title

Review:

"An engaging book."--James Joyce Broadsheet "Sparkling insights into the greatest unread book in world literature."--Dublin Review of Books "Succeed[s] in . . . making Finnegans Wake more accessible while staying alert to its polyvocality."--Irish Studies Review "Offers a way forward for readers ready to move beyond Ulysses, as well as refresher courses for those already eye-deep in the Wake."--Modern Language Review

About the Author:

Kimberly J. Devlin is professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of James Joyce's "Fraudstuff" and Wandering and Return in Finnegans Wake. Christine Smedley is lecturer in English at the University of California, Riverside.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0813064813
• ISBN 13: 9780813064819
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344