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Book Description: University of Chicago press. Book Condition: New. New, This item can not be shipped Internationl. Bookseller Inventory # 0299108244

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Book Description: University of Wisconsin Press, United States, 1993. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New edition. 256 x 204 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. ?Joyce?s Book of the Dark gives us such a blend of exciting intelligence and impressive erudition that it will surely become established as one of the most fascinating and readable Finnegans Wake studies now available.??Margot Norris, James Joyce Literary Supplement. Bookseller Inventory # AAN9780299108243

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Book Description: University of Wisconsin Press. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Joyce's Book of the Dark: "Finnegans Wake" (New edition), John Bishop, "Finnegan's Wake" is perhaps the most difficult and wilfully obscure piece in all of modern literature, a book written in polyglottal puns that continues to baffle not only lay readers but, in large part, Joyceans as well. Here in 12 chapters, John Bishop aims to unravel Joyce's obscurities and aims to reveal the "Wake" more clearly than anyone has done before. The greatest obstacle to the comprehension of "Finnegan's Wake", says Bishop, is the failure to believe that Joyce really meant what he said when he spoke of the book as being a reconstruction of the nocturnal life. As a consequence, readers have scrutinized the text with an unyielding literalism bent on finding a kind of meaning in every way antithetical to the kind of meaning embodied in dreams. Had Joyce made the "Wake" less obscure, says Bishop, he would have annihilated everything about the book that is most essential, most engaging, funny, and most profound. In taking seriously Joyce's stated intention of writing a book about the night, Bishop shows how the determination to represent nocturnal experience accounts for the form, shape, direction, and language of "Finnegan's Wake". Although Bishop is not the first to appreciate the problems Joyce faced in his reconstruction of the night, no one has demonstrated more clearly and persuasively how Joyce's creative imagination solved those problems, nor made a more convincing case for the profound significance of Joyce's effort. Bishop relates the "Wake" to Freud, to Vico, and to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, shedding light throughout on such fundamental and complex subjects as dream theory and interpretation; thanatology; optics and phonetics; infancy, embryology, and gender; and sexuality and power. Bookseller Inventory # B9780299108243

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Book Description: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1993. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. 496 pages. 10.25x8.25x1.25 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __0299108244

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