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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801818206
ISBN-13
9780801818202
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4620073
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
159 Pages
Publication Name
Decentered Universe of Finnegan's Wake : a Structuralist Analysis
Language
English
Subject
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
1977
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
14 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
76-025507
TitleLeading
The
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. The Critical Method Chapter 1. Reading Finnegans Wake Chapter 2. The Narrative Structure Chapter 3. The Themes Chapter 4. The Ontological Condition Chapter 5. Dream and Poetry Chapter 6. Technique Notes Bibliography
Synopsis
Originally published in 1977. The pioneer critics of Finnegans Wake hailed the work as a radical critique of language and civilization. Resuming their position, Margot Norris explains the book's most intractable uncertainties not as puzzles to be solved by a clever reader but as manifestations of a "chaosmos," a Freudian dream world of sexual transgression and social dissolution, of inauthentic being and empty words. Conventional moralities and restraints are under siege in this chaosmos, where precisely those desires and forbidden wishes that are barred in waking thought strive to make themselves felt. Norris demonstrates convincingly that the protean characters of Finnegans Wake are the creatures of a dreaming mind. The teleology of their universe is freedom, and in the enduring struggle between the individual's anarchic psyche and the laws that make civilization possible, it is only in dream that the psyche is triumphant. It is as dream rather than as novel that Norris reads Finnegans Wake . The lexical deviance and semantic density of the book, Norris argues, are not due to Joyce's malice, mischief, or megalomania but are essential and intrinsic to his concern to portray man's inner state of being. Because meanings are dislocated--hidden in unexpected places, multiplied and split, given over to ambiguity, plurality, and uncertainty--the Wake , Norris claims, represents a decentered universe. Its formal elements of plot, character, discourse, and language are not anchored to any single point of reference; they do not refer back to center. Only by abandoning conventional frames of reference can readers allow the work to disclose its own meanings, which are lodged in the differences and similarities of its multitudinous elements. Eschewing the close explication of much Wake criticism, the author provides a conceptual framework for the work's large structures with the help of theories and methods borrowed from Freud, Heidegger, Lacan, Levi-Strauss, and Derrida. Looking at the work without novelistic expectations of the illusion of some "key" to unlock the mystery, Norris explores Joyce's rationale for committing his last human panorama--a bit sadder than Ulysses in its concern with aging, killing, and dying--to a form and language belonging to the deconstructive forces of the twentieth century.
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PR6019.O9F5
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