Annotations to Finnegans Wake
by Roland McHugh
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Author: Roland McHughEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-12-20
ISBN: 0801883822
Number of pages: 648
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Reviews of Annotations to Finnegans Wake
Book Review: a succinct,useful, and functional assistant for "Wake-ing"
Summary: 5 Stars
"Annotations to Finnegans Wake" uses a simple format: matching the "Wake" page-for-page, placing glosses on the page at points corresponding to the passage annotated. So, if you're stumped by a passage in the middle of page ten, you merely glance at page ten in McHugh's volume at mid-page. McHugh combines this with a handful of "sigla" -- symbols or signs of basic concepts/themes central to the "Wake" (and used by Joyce himself in the book's composition...)(see McHugh's "Sigla of Finnegans Wake" [op] for a brief but enlightening treatise on this subject...). This, too, provides quick and ready deciphering.
Glosses are cogent but accurate and useful -- a minumum of bald speculation and "allusion chasing." This is a *great* reference work -- perhaps one of the two or three "indispensible" books for "Wake" studies, and a great springboard for focusing future study....
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