A "Finnegans Wake" Lextionary: Let James Joyce Jazz Up Your Voca(l)bulary - Softcover

Cliett, Bill Cole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 146358945X ISBN 13: 9781463589455

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

"Finnegans Wake" is most definitely a deliberately difficult book, complex, complicated, obscure. The reasons for this are diverse, but an important cause is Joyce's capacity for creating his brave new work from thousands of bold new words. They are creative collisions of existing words, concocted collaborations of multilingual words, and combinations of both that are the inception of a comprehensive, catholic language all its own, what is generally referred to as Wakese. A "Finnegans Wake" Lextionary introduces readers to over 800 of these offbeat, bizarre, weird, and way out words, words well outside our dictionaries, that exist in a literary "langscape" all their own. And since Joyce meant for his inventions to contain multiple meanings evocative with elusive allusions, the defintions given here are only the jump-off point for lots more fun with "Finnegans Wake."

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About the Author

Bill Cole Cliett is the coauthor of the Alley Alligator series of controlled vocabulary readers for elementary school students and author of two books on the uncontrolled vocabulary of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake." While these two sets of books may appear to be literary light years apart, they actually have more in common than might first be imagined.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 146358945X
• ISBN 13: 9781463589455
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 326