The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake /
James Joyce's use of ten one hundred-letter words in Finnegans Wake has always been an intriguing feature of that novel. Eric McLuhan takes a new by placing the Wake in the tradition of Menippean satire, where language is used to shock and provoke. Seen in this light, Joyce's peculiar lang...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I
- 1. Cynic Satire
- 2. Finnegans Wake as Cynic Satire: An Ancient Attack on Modern Culture
- Part II: What the Thunder Said
- 3. Introduction to Part II
- 4. The First Thunderclap: The First Technologies
- 5. The Second Thunderclap: The Prankquean: She (Stoops) to Conjure - Courtship by Piracy (FW 18.17-24.14)
- 6. The Third Thunderclap: HCE, The 'New Womanly Man'
- 7. The Fourth Thunderclap: The Fall of the Garden Itself
- 8. The Fifth Thunderclap: Belinda the Hen
- 9. The Sixth Thunderclap: The Phoenix Playhouse
- 10. The Seventh Thunderclap: Radio
- 11. The Eighth Thunderclap: Sound Film: The Royal Wedding
- 12. The Ninth Thunderclap: The Reciprocating Engine
- 13. The Tenth Thunderclap: Television: The Charge of the Light Brigade
- 14. Conclusion
- Afterword
- APPENDIX 1. On the Composition of the Thunders
- APPENDIX 2. Outline of the Menippean Tradition
- APPENDIX 3. The Rhetorical Structure of Finnegans Wake
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index