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 approach by placing the Wake in the tradition of Menippean satire, where language is used to shock and provoke. Seen in this light, Joyce'...
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Toronto, Ont. :
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: Radio11 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
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