Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals by Finn Fordham
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Overview: This book is a critical introduction to Finnegans Wake and its genesis. Finn Fordham provides a survey of critical, scholarly, and theoretical approaches to Joyce’s iconic masterpiece. He also analyses in detail the compositional development of certain key passages which describe the artist (Shem) and his project; the river-mother (ALP) and her “first kiss;” the Oedipal shooting of the universal father (HCE) by the priestly son (Shaun); and the bewitching and curious daughter (Issy). His analyses demonstrate ‘genetic’ ways of reading the text which illustrate its immense range and playfulness and how these qualities were generated in composition.
As well as opening up the densely detailed textuality of the Wake in all its multiplicity, Fordham argues for a relation between the way the text was formed and key aspects of its thematic content: an uprising of particularity and detail against universality, absolutes, and generality. He shows that the proliferation of individuated textual details overwhelms any unitary concept to the text. And this reflects an idealized and utopian uprising as it overcomes centralizing singularity: Finnegans do wake up. As part of this argument he proposes a qualified return to a notion of character qualified in that characters can be understood in part as reflecting the character of compositional techniques
Genre: Non-Fiction, Literary Criticism, James Joyce, Modernism
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