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James Joyce and the philosophers at Finnegan's wake / Donald Phillip Verene.
Van Pelt Library PR6019.O9 F59386 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Verene, Donald Phillip, 1937- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Finnegans wake.
- Joyce, James.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600--Influence.
- Bruno, Giordano.
- Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464--Influence.
- Nicholas.
- Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744--Influence.
- Vico, Giambattista.
- Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
- Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464.
- Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
- Finnegans wake (Joyce, James).
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 124 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake explores how Joyce used the philosophers Nicholas Cusanus, Giordano Bruno, and Giambattista Vico as the basis upon which to write Finnegans Wake. Very few Joyce critics know enough about these philosophers and therefore often miss their influence on Joyce's great work. Joyce embraces these philosophic companions to lead him through the underworld of history with all its repetitions and resurrections, oppositions and recombinations. We as philosophical readers of the Wake go along with them to meet everybody and in so doing are bound "to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy" of our souls the "uncreated conscience" of humankind. Verene builds his study on the basis of years of teaching Finnegans Wake side by side with Cusanus, Bruno, and Vico, and his book will serve as a guide to readers of Joyce's novel. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Plato's ancient quarrel
- Beckett's exagmination
- Joyce's philosophical vocabulary
- Bruno's equals of opposites and Cusanus's learned ignorants
- Vico's Vita and the producer (Mr. John Baptister Vickar)
- Vico's Science and the millwheeling vicociclometer
- Appendix. Register of philosophers at the Wake.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810133310
- 0810133318
- 9780810133327
- 0810133326
- OCLC:
- 922729043
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