Synopses & Reviews
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. Through detailed parallel readings, she explores a range of connections: issues such as the question of Babel, literary creation as excrement, the complex relations among literary, geometrical and female forms. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in Joyce, Dante, and questions of literary relations.
Review
"Her ability to tackle seemingly baffling and insurmountable textual conundrums in both Dante and Joyce is remarkable. Moreover, she bypasses the set ways of discussing influence and intertextuality in order to offer fresh and invigorating readings of literary relations." Jennifer Frazer, James Joyce Literary Supplement"The book's scope...is broad enough to warrant the attention of readers interested in both authors, as well as in theoretical questions of relations between and among texts [...] Seamless." The Comparatist"Her effort to describe the language in Finnegan's Wake deserves to be read by every student of Joyce and by those who are interested in how the medieval world was retrieved by the modernists as a source of influence and inspiration." James Joyce Quarterly
Synopsis
Boldrini examines how Dante's literary and linguistic theories helped shape Joyce's radical narrative techniques.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Lucia Boldrini is lecturer in English at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: in the wake of the divine comic; Prelude: 'Bethicket me' or, how to find the straight way in the wood of Samuel Beckett's Obliquity of Examination; 1. Working in layers; 2. The confusioning of human races; 3. Distilling vulgar matter; 4. Figures of ineffability; Bibliography.