Joyce, Dante, and the poetics of literary relations :
[Book]
language and meaning in Finnegans wake /
Lucia Boldrini.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
1 online resource (xi, 233 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: In the Wake of the Divine Comic; Prelude: 'Bethicket me'; or, Looking for the straight way in the wood of Samuel Beckett's obliquity of exagmination; CHAPTER 1 Working in layers; CHAPTER 2 The confusioning of human races; CHAPTER 3 Distilling vulgar matter; CHAPTER 4 Figures of ineffability; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Boldrini's study examines how the literary and linguistic theories of Dante's Divine Comedy helped shape the radical narrative techniques of Joyce's last novel Finnegans Wake. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in Joyce, Dante, and questions of literary relations.
Joyce, Dante, and the poetics of literary relations.