1st Edition
James Joyce's 'Work in Progress' Pre-Book Publications of Finnegans Wake Fragments
By Dirk Van Hulle
Copyright 2016
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed would "fuse of themselves", are still recognizable in the text of Finnegans Wake. And while they are undeniably integrated very skillfully, they also function separately. In this publication history, Dirk... Read more
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Biography
Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Antwerp. He is the author of Modern Manuscripts: The Extended Mind and Creative Undoing (2014) and co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. He recently edited the New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (2015).
’Dirk van Hulle’s impeccably researched and wide-ranging book is a major contribution to Joyce scholarship. Presenting the full book-history account of the published versions of "Work in Progress" that appeared in the sixteen years before the publication of Finnegans Wake in 1939, van Hulle persuasively argues that these texts constitute an important subject and series of texts in their own right.’ Michael Groden, Western University Canada
