A Word in Your Ear: How and why to Read James Joyce's Finnegans Wake'A sine qua non for Joyceans' (Clarence Sterling). 'Certainly the best intro to the Wake I've seen' (Andrew H. Blom). This lively and readable essay provides essential background information and helpful reading techniques. |
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Page 8 - Welcome, O life ! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
Page 26 - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away.
Page 40 - But in the night of thick darkness enveloping the earliest antiquity, so remote from ourselves, there shines the eternal and never failing light of a truth beyond all question: that the world of civil society has certainly been made by men, and that its principles are therefore to be found within the modifications of our own human mind.
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| Title | A Word in Your Ear: How and why to Read James Joyce's Finnegans Wake |
| Author | Eric Rosenbloom |
| Publisher | Eric Rosenbloom, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1419609300, 9781419609305 |
| Length | 150 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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