James Joyce's 'work in Progress': Pre-Book Publications of Finnegans Wake Fragments

by Dirk Van Hulle

Book Overview

The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed would "fuse of themselves", are still recognizable in the text of Finnegans Wake. And while they are undeniably integrated very skillfully, they also function separately. In this publication history, Dirk Van Hulle examines the interaction between the private...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367346621
• ISBN13: 9780367346621
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 294 Pages