Phillip Herring distinguishes the solvable problems from the truly insolvable mysteries in Joyce studies. His unusual and often witty book contains enough background material to appeal to a beginning reader of Joyce, yet it will be of the utmost importance to the specialist. He argues that Joyce formulated an uncertainty principle as early as the first Dubliners story and that he continued to engineer impossible-to-resolve mysteries" through his creation of literature's most radical experiment, Einnegans Wake.
Originally published in 1987.
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Joyce's Uncertainty Principle
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Dubliners: The Trials of Adolescence
- 2. Obedientia Civium, Urbis Felicitas: Political Perspectives in Dubliners
- 3. Love's Absence: The Later Dubliners Stories
- 4. Technical Problems in Joyce
- 5. Indeterminacies of Identity
- 6. How Joyce Ends
- 7. Joyce's Meanderthalltale: Finnegans Wake
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index