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The central theme of this monograph is James Joyce's employment of the Irish language in 'Finnegans Wake', the virtuosity with which he makes use of the tongue, the understanding of its grammatical and syntactical subtleties which he reveals in the book and "the explanatory treasure of heart and mind" , as the the author put it himself, which the Gaelic component of the writer's final word on the world provides. Since 'Finnegans Wake' cannot be viewed in total isolation from the greater Joycean canon, the interconnections between it and Joyce's other writings, both fictional and journalistic, will be examined as will his deployment of other languages, notably his use of that second 'Irish' language Hisperic or Hiberno-Latin. James Joyce's employment of the Irish language in 'Finnegans Wake' is an area of study upon which little serious scholarly work has been done prior to study, an extraordinary situation when one considers that, firstly, the author declares in the book Irish to be the second language of the 'Wake' and secondly, that there is hardly a page of the novel which does not contain at least one Irish language element, features which range from the simple and obvious to t

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Author

Diarmuid Curraoin

Publisher

Academica Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781936320790

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities