The Florida James Joyce Series
Edited by Sam Slote, Trinity CollegeSam Slote
Trinity College
School of English
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin D02 PN40, Ireland
slotes@tcd.ie
There are 54 books in this series.
Please note that while you may order forthcoming books at any time, they will not be available for shipment until shortly before publication date
This accessible guide approaches the daunting work in a way that provides handrails for beginners while, at the same time, presenting new insights for experienced readers.
Demonstrating remarkable parallels between specific events and performers of the Rites and the episodes and characters comprising Finnegans Wake, Gibson shows that every event and performer at the Rites has a correlate in the novel, and all Wakean episodes and performers have their parallels in the Rites of Tara. Ultimately, he argues, Joyce structured his novel according to the Teamhur Feis, and Finnegans Wake is a calculated reenactment of the most important event in Irish paganism.