Joyce's Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake

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University of Wisconsin Pres, Dec 1, 1986 - Literary Criticism - 496 pages

Joyce’s Book of the Dark gives us such a blend of exciting intelligence and impressive erudition that it will surely become established as one of the most fascinating and readable Finnegans Wake studies now available.”—Margot Norris, James Joyce Literary Supplement

 

Contents

On Obscurity
3
Chapter 1 Reading the Evening World
26
On English Obliterature
42
Chapter 3 Finnegan
66
Finnegans Wake and the Egyptian Book of the Dead
86
Chapter 5 The Identity of the Dreamer
126
How to Take Polar Bearings
146
The New Science and Finnegans Wake
174
Chapter 8 Meoptics
216
Chapter 9 Earwickerwork
264
On Reading Finnegans Wake
305
Chapter 11 The Nursing Mirror
317
A Riverbabble Primer
336
Notes
389
Index
463
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About the author (1986)

John Bishop is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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