The Finnegans Wake Notebooks at Buffalo - VI.B.14 - Hardcover

Deane, Vincent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2503513514 ISBN 13: 9782503513515

Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition is a fully integrated and cross-referenced edition of all the extant workbooks compiled by Joyce after the completion of Ulysses. It will be published as a series of fascicles, one per authorial notebook, three per scribal notebook, fifty-five in all. This will make individual notebooks available to scholars as they appear and allow critical feedback, laying the foundations for an electronic edition that will be prepared simultaneously. The editorial aim is to bring together all of the information relevant to each note in as concise and simple a way as possible. The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition will provide a reference library of comprehensively quoted source material, in effect an annotated digest of Joyce's working library, which will serve as a new starting point not just for exegesis of Finnegans Wake, but also for biographical, textual, and literary criticism of Joyce. Furthermore, the Edition will allow for a reconstruction of Joyce's intellectual concerns and compositional habits during the drafting of

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About the Author

James Joyce was one of innovators of postmodernism. He is widely considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Born in Dublin, James Joyce (1882 1941) was a modernist and proponent of the stream-of-consciousness writing style and is widely considered one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His works feature primarily Dublin figures such as in the short story collectionDubliners(1914), and the novelsA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man(1916), Ulysses(1922) andFinnegan's Wake(1939).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503513514
• ISBN 13: 9782503513515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312