Joyce Finnegans Wake

Semiotic Perturbations: What The Frog's Eye Tells Us About Finnegans Wake

Finnegans Wake presents a semiotic dilemma for the reader: How is it that the Wake means anything? And, Why doesn't it mean everything? To gesture, somewhat metonymically, toward the Wake itself: It is told in sounds in utter that, in signs so adds to, in universal, in polygluttural, in each auxiliary neutral idiom, sordomutics, florilingua, sheltafocal, flayflutter, a con's cubane, a pro's tut...

When Is a Man not a Man?: Deconstructive and Reconstructive Impulses in Finnegans Wake

The question of Shem the Penman that opens chapter seven of Finnegans Wake—When is a man not a man—and the range of answers that it elicits, represents just one of many instances in which phenomenological pursuits and the concomitant inadequacy of terms come to the foreground of Joyce's work. No matter whom one reads, however, in any given situation labels / signifiers / designations more often...

108-113 Joyce

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Joyce the Playwright

Obituary: Paul Joyce (1958-2016).