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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814953103321

Autore

Jaurretche Colleen

Titolo

Language as prayer in Finnegans Wake / / Colleen Jaurretche ; forward by Sebastian D.G. Knowles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, c2020, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

0-8130-5858-9

0-8130-5747-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Collana

The Florida James Joyce series

Disciplina

823.912

Soggetti

Prayer in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: "Sacrilegious Languages" -- Book I: Image -- Book II: Magic -- Book III: Dreams -- Book IV: Speech

Sommario/riassunto

"This innovative analysis shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with intangible things in his dreamlike masterpiece Finnegans Wake. Colleen Jaurretche moves beyond what scholars know about how Joyce wrote this work to suggest exactly why it follows the order it does in its finished form"--