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R.P. Blackmur on James Joyce
They say the best criticism articulates what you sensed but couldn’t conceptualize, and I think Blackmur hits a very major nail on the head here, identifying the ever-growing problem of literature for the last 200 ...
The Linear and the Circular in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
James Joyce made the superimposition of conflicting patterns one of the central principles of both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. (You can see it in Portrait as well, but nowhere near to the extent.) While he ...
Wilson Knight’s Chart of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Universe
G. Wilson Knight was a mid-century critic probably most known for an infamous little essay on Hamlet he wrote in 1930 called “The Embassy of Death” (collected in The Wheel of Fire). The essay ...
James Joyce: The Difference Between Portrait and Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Well, one difference, as explained by A. Walton Litz in the pretty good book The Art of James Joyce: A process of selectivity harmonizes with his early notion of the ‘epiphany’, which assumes that it ...
Finnegans Wake: A Short Guide to Readable Books about James Joyce’s Unreadable Book
A certain article which I won’t mention reminded me that I should update my reader’s guide to reader’s guides to Finnegans Wake, since there are a lot of people out there who’d like to read ...
One Line from Hamlet
When Stephen spins an elaborate yarn in Ulysses about Hamlet, Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s father and son, and all manner of other things, a yarn that has a little to do with Shakespeare and a lot to ...
Blumenberg on Significance and Fiction
Significance [Bedeutsamkeit] can exceed what is aesthetically permissiblre. The Dane Oehlenschlaeger was a nonparticipant observer at the battle of Jena. He tends toward ironical distance and he knows that he can also presuppose this as ...