Word: joycean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrate that Finnegans Wake is more than just a grammarian's funeral. He has reduced the text by about two-thirds, added an introduction that is admirable for clarity, good sense and erudition, and has placed commentaries here and there to help any dog-Latinist through the Joycean style. Even so, the plain reader (if such exists) will soon find himself in waters deeper than the River Liffey...
...structure of the book, he explains, follows the four-cycle theory of history devised by the Italian philosopher Giovanni Battista Vico (1668-1774), in which human societies progress through the four stages of theocracy, aristocracy, democracy and ricorso (or recurrence). The title of the book is itself a Joycean wordplay. "Finn (fin or finis) -egan" could mean "end again," suggesting the completion of Vico's cycle, while "Wake" suggests rising from sleep, or beginning life again...
...recite Shakespearean verse or the kind of phony political speeches with which they harangue each other in the supposedly real theater of Arthur Miller. Of course people do not speak in asides ("I'll have her yet!"), which were accepted on the stage for decades, nor in a Joycean stream of consciousness, which is accepted today. People do not mumble their disgust with the universe while sitting in ashcans, as do the characters of Samuel Beckett. Nor, Composer Gian Carlo Menotti has pointed out, do they have faces half a block wide, as they do on movie screens...
...WRITE, by John Lennon. The oldest Beatle ("he's the arty one") explains his startling collection of post-Joycean jabberwocky: "As far as I'm conceived this correction of shorty writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've ever ready." His readers shrudlu...
...WRITE, by John Lennon. The oldest Beatle ("He's the arty one") explains his startling collection of post-Joycean jabberwocky: "As far as I'm conceived this correction of short writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've ever ready." His readers shrdlu...