Joyce's Allmaziful Plurabilities: Polyvocal Explorations of Finnegans Wake

by Kimberly J. Devlin (Editor), Christine Smedley (Editor)

Overview

“A brilliantly collaged snapshot of the variety and wealth of literary criticism, and Joyce studies, today.”—Tony Thwaites, author of Joycean Temporalities
 
“Celebrates the multiplicity and sheer rampant excess of Joyce’s prodigally polysemous text with seventeen different scholars employing a likewise prodigal range of critical methodologies.”—Patrick O’Neill, author of Impossible Joyce: Finnegans Wakes
 
“Each of the scholars involved is at the top of his and her game. Their commitment and excitement about the task at hand is evident on virtually every page. This book makes the Wake relevant and accessible to a whole new generation of readers.”—Garry Leonard, author of Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce
 
This is the first Finnegans Wake guide to focus exclusively on the multiple meanings and voices in Joyce’s notoriously intricate diction. Rather than leveling the text it illuminates many layers of puns, wordplay, and portmanteaus, celebrating the Wake’s central experimental technique.
Renowned Joyce scholars explore the polyvocality of individual chapters using game theory, ecocriticism, psychoanalysis, historicism, myth, philosophy, genetic studies, feminism, and other critical frameworks. They set in motion cross-currents and radiating structures of meaning that permeate the entire text and open up satisfying readings of the Wake for novices and seasoned readers alike. A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813064819
Publisher:	University Press of Florida
Publication date:	08/07/2018
Series:	Florida James Joyce
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Kimberly J. Devlin is professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of James Joyce’s “Fraudstuff” and Wandering and Return in Finnegans Wake. Christine Smedley is lecturer in English at the University of California, Riverside.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Polyvocal Explorations of Finnegans Wake vii

List of Abbreviations xi

Introduction: The Prodigal Text Kimberly J. Devlin Christine Smedley 1

1 The "gift of seek on site": The Subject of Prophecy in I.1 John Terrill 14

2 "Here Comes Everybody": HCE and the Existence of Others in I.2 Jim LeBlanc 29

3 Weathering the Text: Barometric Readings of I.3 Tim Conley 44

4 Habeas Corpus Epiphany in I.4 Mia L. McIver 59

5 Joyce's Common Reader: A Primer for Sensory Consciousness in I.5 Colleen Jaurretche 75

6 Playful Reading: I.6 and Game Theory Sean Latham 90

7 Shem's "strabismal apologia": The Split Vision of the Famine in I.7 Christine Smedley 114

8 Fluid Figures in "Anna Livia Plurabelle": An Ecocritical Exploration of I.8 Margot Norris 133

9 Moveable Types: The Character System in "The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies" in II.1 Carol Loeb Shloss 149

10 "Mutuomorphomutation": Horus and Set as Principles of the Digital and Analog in II.2 Jeffrey Drouin 169

11 Irish History and Modern Media: Generating Courage in II.3 Enda Duffy 186

12 Joyce's Countergospel in II.4 David Spurr 201

13 Salvation, Salves, Saving, and Salvage: The Linguistic Underpinnings of III.1 Kimberly J. Devlin 220

14 Jaunty Jaun's Brokerly Advice in III.2 Patrick A. McCarthy 239

15 The Daughter in the Father: The Revolutionary Aspect of III.3 Sheldon Brivic 255

16 The Porters, Polypragmatic Paradigms, and Pseudoselves in III.4 Richard Brown 272

17 "Ricorso": The Flaming Door of IV Vicki Mahaffey 290

List of Contributors 307

Index 311

Editorial Reviews

"An engaging book."—James Joyce Broadsheet "Sparkling insights into the greatest unread book in world literature."—Dublin Review of Books "Succeed[s] in . . . making Finnegans Wake more accessible while staying alert to its polyvocality."—Irish Studies Review "Offers a way forward for readers ready to move beyond Ulysses, as well as refresher courses for those already eye-deep in the Wake."—Modern Language Review

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