The Textual Diaries of James Joyce
Publisher: Lilliput Press
Published: May 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781874675587
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; Literature: Classics; Literary Criticism; Biography / Autobiography; English; Ireland; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism, Textual; Finnegans Wake; Joyce, James; Manuscripts; Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc; General
Description: "This important new study of James Joyce's working practices relates the true history and origin of English literature's towering masterwork, Finnegans Wake (1939), and lays the ground for an intellectual biography of the last eighteen years of its author's life. At the heart of this book Rose presents an original ordering of, and commentary upon, the virtually unknown collection of notebooks compiled by Joyce during this period and now immured in American university archives. In so doing, he opens a window onto a new world of textual exploration while enabling both specialist and non-specialist alike to understand how Joyce came to construct and write his 'unreadable' book. It will be an invaluable tool for teachers and research students, and a source of delight to all concerned with the hermeneutics of intellectual investigation."--BOOK JACKET.