The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake.
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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| Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Press
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- ""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""; ""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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""
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