Joyce's Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake“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 |
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Common terms and phrases
Amenti Anna Livia Anna Livia Plurabelle appear becomes begin blank memory body Budge buried chapter ciphers consciousness corpse curpse Daily World dark dead deaf death dream dreamer Dublin E. A. Wallis Budge Earwicker Egyptian English etymological everywhere evokes eyes eyewitless foggus fall Finn Finnegans Wake Freud genesis gentile Harriet Shaw Weaver HCE's hear hence hero hero's Howth Howth Head human irismaimed Jacques Mercanton James Joyce Joyce's kind knock[ed language letters lies light lines maps of Dublin meaning meoptics mind mouth move night Nilbud nocturnal O.Fr obscure Osiris passage phrase reader reading Real Absence reconstruction reference Relief Map resurrection Science seemetery sense Shaun simply sleeping giant sound space Stephen Dedalus suggests takes tell things tion tropped head turn twilight games Ulysses uncon unconscious Univ Vico Vico's visible vision visual Wake's Wake's sleeping wakening words