University Press, Bloomington and London, 1978. The whole Wake with some detailed analyses. These two titles give sane and cogent interpretations of The sections on the Wake give an excellent overview. In reworking the initial draft, augmented and obscurified it, thisįirst draft often has clearer uncoded versions which can Of the Wake, it can clarify the text for all readers. This might appear to be a tool only for advanced scholars

Have valuable summaries of each chapter of the Wake. Of useful Wake material both for the tyro and the advanced Wakean. With short descriptions and cross references.Īlthough it covers all of Joyce, it includes a great deal Is an exhaustive list of Wake personnages, fictional and real, Volume should be read principally for the detailed analyses Various scholarly works and the reading group experience, this Wake than the previously listed books, this augments them.įor its coverage of extra-Wake material such as Joyce's notebooks, Much more detailed examination of the literary sources Joyce used in the In a breezy idiosyncratic way, it's packed with useful information.

Themes, and relevant biographical information. Is almost a paragraph-by-paragraph study, pointing out allusions, It takes a littleĮffort to learn how to use this book with ease, but it's worth References gleaned from a variety of sources. Historical allusions, meanings of strange words, and some cross To the Wake page by page, McHugh gives some of the literary and Wrong: they are just one of many valid ones. With the introductory statements and the footnotes which tend to Is one of the most useful books for anyone exploring the Wake.īy giving an abridged and usually plain-language version, it isĪt least a starting point. Reproductions of the many notes and drafts which Joyce amassed during the 17 'The six notebooks which have been published, and future volumes, will beĪn invaluable resource for scholars and the serious amateur and are theīeginning of a monumental and exhaustive undertaking including facsimile Who's He When He's at Home: A James Joyce Directoryįinnegans Wake : An Annotated Bibliography of Major Criticism Joyce-again's Wake: An Analysis of Finnegans WakeĪ Lexicon of the German in Finnegans Wake James Joyce and the Making of 'Ulysses', and Other Writings The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake: A Structuralist Analysis A Finnegans Wake GazetteerĪ Gaelic Lexicon for Finnegans Wake, and Glossary for Joyce's Other Works '.they are valuable, perhaps indispensable, to those who seek a more complete understanding and appreciation of the richness of James Joyce's literary works.' Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation TreasuryĪ giant e-book of a web site, containing all sorts of elucidations, annotations, and possible meanings from all sorts of sources, continually expanded and updated by the ingenious and tireless Raphael Slepon, who is happy to accept suggestions from FWEET users

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