Annotations to Finnegans Wake
McHugh, Professor Roland
ISBN 10: 0801822599 ISBN 13: 9780801822599
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980
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First edition hardcover, without dust jacket, seemingly as issued, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very slight rubbing to green cloth boards, else very good; gilt titling remains bright and bold. Ends of spine bumped, one small split at head. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota; due to the size/weight of this book, additional shipping charges may apply. No dust jacket, likely as issued. Seller Inventory # 335219
Synopsis:
Long considered the essential guide to Joyce's famously difficult work, Roland McHugh's Annotations to "Finnegans Wake" provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of the Annotations corresponds directly with a page of the standard Viking/Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake and contains line-by-line notes following the placement of the passages to which they refer. The reader can thus look directly from text to notes and back again, with no need to consult separate glossaries or other listings. McHugh's richly detailed notes distill decades of scholarship, explicating foreign words, unusual English connotations and colloquial expressions, place names, historical events, song titles and quotations, parodies of other texts, and Joyce's diverse literary and popular sources. The third edition has added material reflecting fifteen years of research, including significant new insights from Joyce's compositional notebooks (the "Buffalo Notebooks"), now being edited for the first time.
About the Author:
Roland McHugh moved to Dublin in 1973 in order to understand Finnegans Wake more completely and has lived there ever since. He is the author of The Sigla of "Finnegans Wake" and The "Finnegans Wake" Experience.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Annotations to Finnegans Wake
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.