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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

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Author Biography

Name: James Joyce
Birth Date: February 2, 1882
Death Date: January 13, 1941
Place of Birth: Rathgar, Ireland
Place of Death: Zurich, Switzerland
Nationality: Irish
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce
14179 words, approx. 47.3 pages
Rather than forging radically new means for fiction, the novels of James Joyce--A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939)--as well as his single short-story collection, Dubliners (1914), changed the way fic...
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Biography of James Joyce
13855 words, approx. 46.2 pages
Few writers have as secure a claim to be the major figure of the modernist period in literary history as James Joyce, a position that he prepared himself for with diligence and commitment. During his student days at University College in Dublin he prophe...
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Biography of James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce
12853 words, approx. 42.8 pages
Few writers have as secure a claim to be the major figure of the modernist period in literary history as James Joyce, a position that he prepared himself for with diligence and commitment. During his student days at University College in Dublin he prophe...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Finnegans Wake Information
8,071 words, approx. 27 pages
Finnegans Wake, published in 1939, is James Joyce's final novel. Following the publication of Ulysses in 1922, Joyce began working on Wake and by 1924 installments of the work began to appear in serialized form, first under the title "A New Unnamed...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
Rejoyce at Finnegans Wake
12/03/1995: 419 words, approx. 1 pages
Finnegans Wake 2067 Massachusetts Ave. Porter Square Cambridge Telephone: 576-2240 Hours: Sunday through Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; bar closes at 1 a.m. daily. Separate smoking section...
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The Boston Globe
Finnegans Wake And Dr. Seuss
10/23/1995: 824 words, approx. 3 pages
Which of the following strings of letters do you find most interesting? 1) Aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa. 2) One fish two fish red fish blue fish. Black fish blue fish...
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AP News
Scholar settles James Joyce lawsuit
3/24/2007: 547 words, approx. 2 pages
A Stanford University professor who sued James Joyce's estate for the right to quote excerpts from "Finnegans Wake" and letters between the author and his daughter will be able to use the material after agreeing to settle the case.As part of an agreement reached this...
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AP News
Scholar wins right to quote James Joyce
3/25/2007: 547 words, approx. 2 pages
A Stanford University professor who sued James Joyce's estate for the right to quote excerpts from "Finnegans Wake" and letters between the author and his daughter will be able to use the material after agreeing to settle the case.As part of an agreement reached this...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Marian Eide
7,012 words, approx. 23 pages
In this essay, Eide explores Joyce's “fluidity of language” in Finnegans Wake and asserts that the book “performs an exploration of the interactive relationship between oppositional entities.”
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Interview by John Cage and Richard Kostelanetz
3,743 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following interview, Cage explains his use of mesostics (aligning letters within a text to spell out words vertically), clarifies the formulas for picking the words and letters in his mesostics, and discusses his decision to rework James Joyce's Finnegans Wake in this style.


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