Overview

This guide to Finnegans Wake is the first to focus exclusively on the multiple meanings and voices in Joyce’s notoriously intricate diction - 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.

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An engaging book. --James Joyce Broadsheet 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

"""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"

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Kimberly J. Devlin is professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, USA. 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, USA.

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