The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake /

The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake / / Eric McLuhan.

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James Joyce's use of ten one hundred-letter words in Finnegans Wake has always been an intriguing feature of that novel. Eric McLuhan takes a new by placing the Wake in the tradition of Menippean satire, where language is used to shock and provoke. Seen in this light, Joyce's peculiar lang...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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McLuhan, Eric,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1997
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Part I
  • 1. Cynic Satire
  • 2. Finnegans Wake as Cynic Satire: An Ancient Attack on Modern Culture
  • Part II: What the Thunder Said
  • 3. Introduction to Part II
  • 4. The First Thunderclap: The First Technologies
  • 5. The Second Thunderclap: The Prankquean: She (Stoops) to Conjure - Courtship by Piracy (FW 18.17–24.14)
  • 6. The Third Thunderclap: HCE, The 'New Womanly Man'
  • 7. The Fourth Thunderclap: The Fall of the Garden Itself
  • 8. The Fifth Thunderclap: Belinda the Hen
  • 9. The Sixth Thunderclap: The Phoenix Playhouse
  • 10. The Seventh Thunderclap: Radio
  • 11. The Eighth Thunderclap: Sound Film: The Royal Wedding
  • 12. The Ninth Thunderclap: The Reciprocating Engine
  • 13. The Tenth Thunderclap: Television: The Charge of the Light Brigade
  • 14. Conclusion
  • Afterword
  • APPENDIX 1. On the Composition of the Thunders
  • APPENDIX 2. Outline of the Menippean Tradition
  • APPENDIX 3. The Rhetorical Structure of Finnegans Wake
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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