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James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake / Donald Phillip Verene.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Verene, Donald Phillip, 1937- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744--Influence.
- Vico, Giambattista.
- Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464--Influence.
- Nicholas.
- Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600--Influence.
- Bruno, Giordano.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
- Joyce, James.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Finnegans wake.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- 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.
- 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.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-3333-4
- OCLC:
- 948632133
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