Online Seminar Series: Finnegans Wake
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Online Seminar SeriesFinnegans Wake by James JoyceWednesday, May 4, 2022
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Having done the longest day in literature with Ulysses (1922), Joyce set himself an even greater challenge for his next book - the night. "A nocturnal state... That is what I want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream." Published in 1939, the book would take Joyce two decades to complete.
A story with no real beginning or end, the work has come to assume a preeminent place in English literature. Anthony Burgess has lauded Finnegans Wake as "a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page". Harold Bloom has called it Joyce's masterpiece, and, in The Western Canon (1994), wrote that "if aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon, Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante".
Join us as we read this text one chapter at a time, on the first Wednesday of each month.
May 4 Reading:Book One - Chapter One of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Introduction and Chapter One of
A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William TindallSchedule:12:00-1:30PM PDTTutor: Barry RabeLocation: Online. Register to receive the link.