A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1577314050

Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of "Finnegans Wake" - James Joyce's masterwork, which consumed a third of his life - have given up after a few pages, dismissing it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of "Finnegans Wake." The authors break down Joyce's "unintelligible" book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. They outline the book's basic action, and then simplify -- and clarify -- its complex web of images and allusions. "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" is the latest addition to the "Collected Works of Joseph Campbell" series.

Re Joyce

Re Joyce
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1965
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780393004458

Commentary on Joyce for the average reader.

Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements

Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393350169

Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called “elephantine fun” to write. A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon’s life into a pattern borrowed—in liberty, equality, and fraternity—from Beethoven’s Third “Eroica” Symphony, in this rich, exciting, bawdy, and funny novel Anthony Burgess has pulled out all the stops for a virtuoso performance that is literary, historical, and musical.

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
Author: James Joyce
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 715
Release: 2017-07-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 178656470X

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Finnegans Wake’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of James Joyce’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Joyce includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Finnegans Wake’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Joyce’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Here Comes Everybody

Here Comes Everybody
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-06-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781903385890

"First published by Faber and Faber Ltd. 1965"--Copyright page.

New York

New York
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1976
Genre: New York (N.Y.)
ISBN:

Discusses the history of New York City and describes the city, its people and their way of life today.

Music in the Words

Music in the Words
Author: Alan Frederick Shockley
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780754661993

Can a novel follow the form of a symphony and still succeed as a novel? Can musical counterpoint be mimicked by words on a page? Alan Shockley begins looking for answers by examining music's appeal for novelists and exploring two brief works, a prose fugue by Douglas Hofstadter, and a short story by Anthony Burgess modeled after a Mozart symphony. Analyses of three large, emblematic attempts at musical writing follow along with discussions on two recent brief novels. From the perspective of a composer, Shockley offers the reader fresh tools for approaching these dense and often daunting texts.

Annotations to Finnegans Wake

Annotations to Finnegans Wake
Author: Roland McHugh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 656
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The biggest stumbling block facing any prospective reader of "Finnegans Wake" is the book itself, with its thousands of words of Joyce's inventions, derived from nearly every foreign language imaginable and from a host of other sources. Now extensively revised, expanded, and corrected, Roland McHugh's "Annotations" is a unique one-volume guidebook designed to be read side by side with the "Wake" itself.