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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1050grams, ISBN: 0253322103.
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Bloomington. 1978. Indiana University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0253322103. 547 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Joyce Ireland Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER-FINNEGANS WAKE is James Joyce's most difficult work. He devoted decades to its composition, read voraciously, and ploughed back his gleanings from sources both commonplace and esoteric in the form of elaborate wordplay. This Gazetteer, a guide to the places and to selected historical events whose imprint can be discerned in the WAKE, complements the Census, Concordance, and lexicons that have become essential tools for unraveling the allusive-and elusive-thread of Joyce's pun-filled narrative. As Louis Mink points out in his introduction to the Gazetteer, FINNEGANS WAKE has a unique topography that violates the geographical postulate of identification by fixed coordinates. Unlike the Dublin of ULYSSES-which corresponds in precise and reassuring ways to the ‘real' Dublin-in FINNEGANS WAKE the boundaries of the city expand to include the rest of the globe and the imaginary locales of fiction and mythology. In addition there are archaeological dimensions to the WAKE world. Layers of Dublin's history are superimposed: medieval walls exist side b side with Georgian boulevards and Edwardian suburbs within a single plane of time. Although the recognition of place names has not been totally neglected in WAKE exegesis, this Gazetteer may convince residual skeptics that Joyce's geographic allusions are systematic. ‘Place' is broadly defined here to include stars and planets, ships, pubs, streets and alleyways, monuments, and buildings, as well as more traditional topographical features such as bridges, rivers, estuaries, bays, and promontories. The Gazetteer identifies more than 7800 such ‘places. ' Part One, the Linear Guide, consists of a line-by-line index of geographic allusions, giving exact references to the standard edition of the WAKE and a ‘translation' of each identified or conjectured reference. The identifications refer the reader to Part Two, the Alphabetical Gazetteer, which provides information about each place and enumerates the allusions to it in the WAKE, as well as furnishing the context in which each occurs. Mink indicates with question marks those identifications that are intuitive rather than authoritative, but as far as possible, this Gazetteer eschews interpretation and concentrates on the background of fact to which any interpretation must be anchored. It will thus be an indispensable aid to Joyce scholars and to devotees of FINNEGANS WAKE. inventory #5695.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0253322103. Very Good + Hardcover in Very Good + Dust Jacket; Previous owners name inked neatly on front free endpaper, light edge wear to book and DJ. Clean and Pretty copy.; 8vo 8"-9" tall.